by Scott Gourley | Nov 8, 2023 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
OUR JAWS GET a pretty constant workout between all the talking, chewing, and yawning we do, but those simple activities become more complicated for those with temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD or TMJ). There’s a small, fibrous disk that serves as a cushion...
by Scott Gourley | Oct 11, 2023 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
UNLESS THE DENTIST is an active TikTok user, it’s not a good idea to get dental health advice from social media. We’ve noticed a lot of dangerous DIY ideas popping up so let’s take a minute to nip them in the bud. 1. “Healthy Soda” No...
by Scott Gourley | Sep 13, 2023 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
FOR AS LONG AS there have been people, there has been tooth decay, but people in past civilizations didn’t have as many answers about what caused their tooth problems as we do now. That led to some very strange beliefs about dental health. One of the most common...
by Scott Gourley | Aug 9, 2023 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
WE CAN SEE a hint of the state of dental health in Shakespeare’s England from a sonnet in which he describes his lady love’s reeking breath. The lines “black contagious breath” and “his breath stinks with eating toasted cheese” make...
by Scott Gourley | Aug 2, 2023 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
YOU PROBABLY HEARD the line “it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown” when you were growing up, but the pedantic dentist might point out that it technically isn’t true. At least ten muscles are involved in smiling, while as few as six are...
by Scott Gourley | Jul 12, 2023 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
WE TEND TO IMAGINE that people from earlier eras must’ve had worse teeth than we do because they didn’t have things like modern dentistry, orthodontics, and root canal treatment, but what dental problems were they dealing with and how did they protect...
