The Dental & The Incidental
How common is oral cancer? The answer is – very common! According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, Close to 58,500 Americans are diagnosed with oral or oropharyngeal cancer annually. These cancers cause more than 12,250 deaths per year in the United States. Worldwide, over 450,000 new cases of…
Greetings and Salutations!Wow, February is upon us, yet I feel as if the year’s just begun.Perhaps it’s because I spent the first ten days of 2024 wholly entranced by the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains and distracted by the thrill of my return to SKI COUNTRY!That’s right. After…
Did you know that sugar-free products can cause tooth decay? It may seem counter-intuitive, but it’s true. Ever since the invention of photography in the late 1800s, the US has become an ever more image-driven culture. Today, mobile devices enable us to snap an image and share it…
In honor of what would have been his 95th birthday and to commemorate the 25th anniversary of when I took over the practice, I’m re-posting this tribute to Sam Pekarne from 2013. Sam was one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever had the pleasure to know. I…
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.…
“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…
