Can We Smile Our Way to Better Health?
IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles while frowning…
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. He sets…
Endodontics History: Surprisingly Wild
AS FAR BACK as the second or third century B.C., people have been trying to operate on infected teeth…
Tips for Managing a Toothache
SOMETIMES WHEN WE get a toothache, there are hours or more standing between us and the help of the dentist or endodontist. Here…
How Do Swimming and Diving Affect Teeth?
“SWIMMER’S CALCULUS” SOUNDS more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth, but it’s actually the term for yellow…
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…
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…
Why Choose an AAE Endodontist?
WE OFTEN HEAR about the American Dental Association, but there’s another organization just…
Signs a Tooth Needs Root Canal Therapy
ENDODONTIC TREATMENT, also called root canal therapy, is a dental procedure in which decayed dental pulp is removed so that…
Time for a Lesson in Dental Anatomy!
THERE WON’T BE a pop-quiz later, but we still want our patients to be familiar with the anatomy of their teeth…