When Is Thumbsucking a Problem?
A pacifier or thumb/finger-sucking habit that lasts beyond the toddler years can have a negative impact on a child’s teeth and jaws.
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How We Breathe Can Affect Our Teeth
You may have heard the insult “mouth-breather” in recent years thanks to the popularity of the show Stranger Things.
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Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?
It’s not actually true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile.
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Elizabethan England’s Rotten Sweet Tooth
In one of his sonnets, Shakespeare described the reeking breath of his lady love, and the subject came up again in two of his plays.
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When to Expect Baby Teeth to Appear
A couple of the biggest rites of passage in childhood are the first baby teeth coming in and the first adult teeth coming in.
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Cavities: The Most Common Childhood Disease
40% of kids will develop at least one cavity by the time they turn eleven.
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How Do Swimming and Diving Affect Teeth?
“Swimmer’s calculus” sounds more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth.
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Dental Health in Ancient Cultures
We tend to assume that people from earlier eras (especially the pre-industrial ones) must have had terrible dental health, but that’s not always true.
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Never Forget That Teeth Are Not Tools
Teeth have many different uses, from chewing our food to helping us speak clearly to forming the structure of our faces.
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How to Get Ready for the First Dental Visit
Parents can do a lot to help their child come into the dentist’s office feeling relaxed and positive.