Why Aren’t Teeth Always Straight?
The benefits of having straight teeth are many.
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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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Functions of Different Parts of Your Braces
If you are or have been an orthodontic patient, you’ve probably wondered what the different parts of braces are for.
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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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How Do Braces Actually Work?
Moving teeth into their proper alignment is a complicated and fascinating process, so how do braces do it?
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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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Why the Banned Foods List Matters
Every current and former orthodontic patient knows about the banned foods list.
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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.