Your dentist screens your mouth at every check-up, but a great deal happens between appointments. Knowing how to check your mouth at home takes about two minutes a month, and its purpose is not to diagnose anything. It is simply to learn what your normal looks like,...
If a tooth has been knocked out, what you do in the next hour matters more than almost anything else that follows. An adult tooth can often be saved and reimplanted, but the odds fall with every minute it spends out of the mouth. So this is written to be read quickly....
Most smokers know about the staining. Rather fewer know what smoking does below the surface, and that is the part that costs people their teeth. The smoking effects on teeth and gums go a long way beyond appearance, and one of them is particularly unfair: smoking...
Should you clean your tongue is a question that divides bathrooms across the country, and the answer is a clear yes. The back of the tongue is the single most common home for the bacteria that cause bad breath, and it is also the most commonly neglected surface in the...
Knowing what to eat after a tooth extraction matters more than people expect, because the first day or two of eating either protects the healing socket or disturbs it. The good news is that the rules are simple, the restrictions are short-lived, and most people are...
