What Causes Tooth Infections?
THE ADA IDENTIFIES tooth decay, gum disease, and a cracked tooth as causes of tooth infections. Each one…
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Your Pre-Op Checklist for Root Canal Therapy
IF YOU HAVE endodontic therapy coming up soon, especially if it’ll be your first time at an endodontist’s office, we…
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How Do We Find the Right Toothpaste?
THERE ARE SO many choices of toothpaste in our grocery stores. With an…
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Weird Dental History Highlight: “Tooth Worms”
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN getting cavities as long as there have been people, and people before modern dentistry had some strange theories…
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Your Prescriptions and Your Oral Health
MOST MEDICATIONS come with a list of possible side effects, including side effects that impact oral health. These side…
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Why Are Natural Teeth the Best Option?
THE SCIENCE OF saving teeth will keep improving as we make more advances in medical research and technology, but what’s…
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Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?
IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles while frowning…
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Dentists Versus Endodontists
IT MIGHT SEEM more convenient to just get a root canal taken care of by the general dentist, but endodontists have far more training…
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Elizabethan England’s Rotten Sweet Tooth
IN ONE OF HIS sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again in two of his plays. He sets…
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Endodontics History: Surprisingly Wild
AS FAR BACK as the second or third century B.C., people have been trying to operate on infected teeth…
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