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I am not the Grinch who stole Halloween but I do have a suggestion to modify your tactics when the doorbell rings in a few weeks. Pass out a small …

Ben had lost his bottom four front teeth in a car accident 23 years ago and wore a “partial denture” to fill in this gap. It was held in place …

I have been asked several versions of this question during my years in practice, and it is always from someone over fifty years old. Teeth don’t shrink, unless you have …

Peter had gagged then vomited profusely in the dental chair as a teen, during an x-ray procedure, so had concluded that he should avoid that embarrassment again. He didn’t go …

The hinge that joins the top and bottom jaws of your mouth together has an elaborate name. It is the temporal mandibular joint, often shortened to TMJ, and a joint …

Part of my responsibility, to patients, is to make sure that they successfully grip and maneuver their toothbrush and floss. This may seem like a silly phrase, until one considers …

Have you seen all the happy people with straight white teeth in ads and commercials? Aside from photo-retouching, there are 4 ways to get “whiter” teeth. There are two ways …

If you ever want to gross someone out, do an internet search for “Bacteria on Tongue”. Do another for “Geographic Tongue”, simply the name for a tongue with deeper crevices …

I’m always humbled when existing patients refer their friends and family to our dental practice. So often, these new patients are as delightful as those who sent them! That’s why …

All of a sudden, Matt jumped out of the dental chair and was breathing rapidly. He started pacing in the treatment room, then he headed toward the reception desk. He …