The Dental & The Incidental
Just the other day I had an experience involving longtime patients that left me with such feelings of outrage and disgust that I felt compelled to put pen to paper. The tale I’m about to tell you contains what I consider a flagrant demonstration of audacity and greed…
I recently read, with amusement, a human-interest story about someone whose teeth turned green after consuming copious amounts of green beer at a local Irish pub. Similarly, I recall a patient who, despite being given my list of foods to avoid when whitening your teeth, consumed red wine…
Today’s modern dentistry offers some pretty high tech options for patients who are missing teeth. Although I still have many patients who have traditional dental bridges or dentures, more and more of them are choosing to have dental implants as part of the solution to their deficient dentition…
“Brain Freeze” is the intense headache people often get when they eat ice cream, popsicles, milkshakes, frozen drinks and other really cold foods. It is a very sharp, stabbing pain in the forehead and most of us have experienced it at one time or another. Brain Freeze (sometimes…
The other day one of my patients asked me if she should consider adding oil pulling to her daily oral hygiene routine. She had recently undergone a flurry of treatment as a result of a three-year hiatus from regular dental care. To avoid going through that again she…
