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…
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…
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?…
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.…
When it Hurts to Bite, but the Tooth Doesn’t Feel Broken So you are sitting in front of the television watching America’s favorite pastime or perhaps you are in a movie theatre enjoying one of Hollywood’s new releases all the while munching on freshly popped popcorn when you…
“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…
