Healthy Teeth May Help To Take Home The Gold
A new study suggests that healthy teeth help athletes to perform at their highest level. Unfortunately, one trait that many athletes share in common is their lack of oral health. A study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, showed that a fifth of athletes said tooth discomfort damaged their training, and as a […]
National Dental Assistant Recognition Week!
There’s only one holiday we look forward to after Valentines Day… Dental Assistant Recognition Week! From March 2nd to March 8th, show your affection to the Dental Assistants who’ve dedicated their time to their practice and helping to provide patients with the care that they need. This year’s theme, “Dental Assisting: Embracing the Changes of […]
Is Chewing Gum Harmful To Your Oral Health?
Average Americans chew about 300 sticks of gum a year. And, in the past… chewing gum has been criticized by dentists as harmful to ones oral health. Today, dentists recognize that chewing gum actually has positive benefits. In 1869, a physician wrote that chewing gum would “exhaust the salivary glands and cause the intestines to […]
Ancient Dental Techniques
In our last article we told you about how teeth can leave behind a record of what our ancestors ate millions of years ago. According to the journal Nature, evidence of tooth drilling has also been discovered from nearly six millennia ago. In a Neolithic graveyard on the Pakistan/ Afghanistan border (also known as the […]
Ancient Teeth Provide Evolutionary Clues
Did you know that our teeth leave behind a record of what we ate for dinner millions of years ago? According to a recent article featured in the scientific journal Plos One… our teeth have evolved. A scientist analyzed a collection of 15 ancient teeth found in Indonesia. The teeth date from the mid-Pleistocene period, from […]