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What Your Smile Says About Your Age (And How to Fix It)

You can moisturize, exercise, and sleep eight hours a night — but if your smile is showing signs of age, it has a way of undermining everything else. Research in facial perception consistently shows that the condition of a person’s teeth is one of the strongest visual cues people use to estimate age. Worn, discolored, […]

Women’s Dental Health

WOMEN FACE A different set of challenges than men do in caring for their gums and teeth, and they also have other benefits. Oral Health Issues that Affect Women More When it comes to temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) diagnoses, women make up 90%. TMD can be caused by joint structure, bruxism, arthritis, stress, hormones, or […]

Kissing and Contagious Cavities

THE REASON DAILY brushing and flossing are crucial for controlling harmful oral bacteria is that they quickly reproduce. In a healthy, clean mouth, it’s possible to have anywhere from a thousand to a hundred thousand bacteria on the surface of each tooth, but that can soon increase to as many as a hundred million to […]

Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?

IT’S NOT REALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile. The truth is that when shifting from a frown to a smile, it takes approximately 10 muscles, but only 6 muscles are used in frowning. We think the saying should be “burn more calories with a smile!” And losing calories is […]

Can How We Breathe Affect Our Teeth?

Thanks to the influence of the show Stranger Things. You may have heard the insult “mouth-breather.” If possible, avoid mouth breathing and breath through your nose. Consider mouth breathing a backup plan, not our primary way of breathing. Mouth breathing has adverse health effects in short and the long term. The Short-Term Effects of Mouth […]

How Do Swimming and Diving Affect Teeth?

Swimmer’s calculus is a nickname used to describe yellow or brown stains that develop on teeth after prolonged exposure to acidic chlorine ions in pool water. This is caused when calcium salts form small crystals on top of your teeth, permanently changing their appearance. Swimmers can minimize chances of getting swimmer’s calculus by practicing good […]

Never Forget That Teeth Are Not Tools

TEETH have many uses, from helping us speak clearly and chew our food, to forming the structure of our faces. Teeth also make up our smiles! These are the uses our teeth are for, but when we use them as tools for other jobs, we risk causing severe damage to them. Teeth Do Not Make […]

Your Mouth—Related To Snoring and Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea affects more than 18 million adults and up to 20% of habitually snoring children in the United States alone. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder characterized by brief, repeated interruptions to normal breathing during sleep. It can have many short and long-term effects on a person’s health (to the point of being potentially […]