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Actress Jennie Garth Shares Tips for Making Oral Health Fun!
Plenty of parents use little tricks to persuade young ones to eat their vegetables, wash their hands, or get to bed on time. But when actress Jennie Garth wanted to help her kids develop healthy...
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Oral Cancer: Risk Factors and Prevention
Oral cancer is a serious health problem, responsible for the death of about one person every hour, every day in the United States. It was once thought that folks over 40 were chiefly at risk for the...
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Baseball and Braces: Joe Girardi's Bargain
Sometimes, we all need a bit of prompting to do what's good for us. When Serena Girardi, the 10-year-old daughter of New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, needed to have orthodontic treatment, she was...
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Battling Bruxism and Saving Your Teeth
Do you clench your jaw or grind your teeth? Bite your nails? Chew on pencils or toothpicks? Or, heaven forbid, unscrew hard-to-open bottle caps using your precious pearly whites? Over time, habits...
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Dental Sealants: One of the Childhood Secrets TV Designer Nate Berkus Credits...
As a successful author, interior design guru (with 127 makeovers in eight years on The Oprah Winfrey Show), and host of his own television program, The Nate Berkus Show, Nate Berkus understands the...
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Straightening Your Child's Teeth: When is the best time to start?
All parents want their child to have an attractive smile and good strong healthy teeth; but it may be difficult for parents to know if their young children's teeth are coming in the way they should....
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Iron Chef Cat Cora: Protecting Your Children's Teeth Starts Early
When Cat Cora is not doing battle as the first female chef on the Food Network's hit series Iron Chef America, she is busy caring for the needs of her four active young sons. This includes monitoring...
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Five Ways to Make Sure Your Dental Implants Succeed
Modern dental implants, sometimes called “your third set of teeth,” have revolutionized the practice of dentistry. As permanent replacements for missing teeth, dental implants are highly successful. A...
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Michael Douglas' Plea: Get Screened for Oral Cancer!
Actor Michael Douglas shocked TV audiences across the country when he announced on the David Letterman Show in 2010 that he has stage IV oral cancer. Fortunately, the cancer had not spread and his...
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Having a Tooth Removed is a 'No-Anxiety' Affair
Many people view a tooth extraction (removal) as a major ordeal; but from a dentist’s standpoint it’s a routine procedure. That’s not to say, though, that all extractions are alike — there are varying...
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Actor Ed Helms' Tooth-Yanking Trick: It Was a Dental Implant!
The lengths that some comedians will go to for a laugh! Actor Ed Helms, as dentist Stu Price, pulled out his own tooth in the movie The Hangover. Or did he? Turns out Helms really is missing a tooth,...
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New Permanent Teeth - Faster Than Ever!
If you have lost your natural teeth, you may already have heard that dental implants are the best option for tooth replacement. Unlike removable dentures or bridgework, implants actually fuse to your...
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From Model to Mogul, Kathy Ireland Maintains a Sparkling Smile
You may have seen Kathy Ireland on the cover of Sports Illustrated, but did you know that she is now a business mogul? Through it all, Ireland has kept her model good looks, and that includes a...
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Hold Back the Clock with Orthodontics and Cosmetic Dentistry
As the Baby Boomer generation moves into its 60s, more and more of us are concerned with looking younger. We do it with vitamins, diet, exercise, makeup, cosmetic surgery, and yes, even with cosmetic...
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Chipped Teeth Harmoniously Made Good as New!
“Break a leg” is a well-known theatrical expression for wishing good luck to an actor about to go on stage. Singers should have one of their own…“Chip a tooth”! Apparently collisions between...
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Keep Your Gums in the Pink
Being “in the pink” is a good thing; it means you're healthy. Being “in the red” is not so good; it means your health is questionable (financially, anyway). Though they weren't coined for dentistry...
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How Dentistry Saved Kathy Ireland's Smile
It is not often that you find a celebrity who is willing to speak candidly about any cosmetic or restorative dentistry that he or she has had. Instead, most prefer that their fans just assume that...
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Your Oral Surgeon is an Important Player on Your Dental Healthcare Team
During most of your life, your dental healthcare will be mainly provided by your general dentist. Sometimes, though, certain situations and conditions call for the skills of a dental specialist. One...
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Avoiding the Jim Carrey Chipped-Tooth Look
Fans of the classic bumbling-buddies comic film “Dumb and Dumber” will surely remember the chipped front tooth that Jim Carrey sported as simpleminded former limo driver Lloyd Christmas. Carrey...
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Diagnosing the Exact Injury is Key to Treating Jaw Pain
Your lower jaw is an integral part of eating, speaking and other tasks involving the mouth. But what happens if you suffer an injury to one of the two joints that connect it to the skull? The result...
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