The Dental & The Incidental
So, I just returned from a short ski vacation in Vail… If you’re a skier, you know the exhilaration and glee brought on by the pull of gravity as one glissades down the steep and snowy slopes. And boy, was there ever an abundance of snow this season!…
If you’re one of the billions of people whose parents insisted that you brush your teeth with toothpaste at least twice a day, it may surprise you to find out that some people do not use toothpaste when they brush. Is toothpaste necessary to maintain good oral health?…
A broken, cracked, or chipped front tooth is commonly caused by an unanticipated encounter with something hard, such as a chicken bone. Or, being bumped while drinking from a bottle. Or, a bad fall on the street, etc. Dental mishaps of this nature can create a cosmetic crisis…
Many people (including yours truly) who are at least old enough to have college-age children are walking around with “medals of valor” in their mouths, reflective of a dental age gone by. These “medals” or actually “metals” that I playfully refer to are of course silver-mercury amalgam fillings.…
Cat Got Your Tongue? As you no doubt know, the aforementioned expression is common idiom referring to one’s loss for words. But have you ever wondered how such a phrase came to be? This expression may have its roots during the seafaring days of the old British Navy…
In the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, “The only thing to fear is fear itself.” But he was merely talking about the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor and not the crippling fear that many people experience when faced with the going to the dentist. Dental Phobia is…
