by Scott Gourley | Sep 14, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
THERE ARE SO many choices of toothpaste in our grocery stores. With an entire aisle of toothpaste options to choose from, we want to help our patients narrow things down a little based on their individual dental health needs. Whitening Toothpaste Choose a whitening...
by Scott Gourley | Sep 7, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN getting cavities as long as there have been people, and people before modern dentistry had some strange theories about what was causing them. A popular one believed around the world for thousands of years was the idea of “tooth worms.”...
by Scott Gourley | Aug 31, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
MOST MEDICATIONS come with a list of possible side effects, including side effects that impact oral health. These side effects are common even when the medications have nothing to do with your teeth or gums, so it’s helpful to know what you can do to balance...
by Scott Gourley | Aug 10, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
IT’S NOT ACTUALLY true that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile; smiling takes at least ten muscles while frowning requires as few as six. We think the saying should be changed to “smile to burn more calories!” And that isn’t the only...
by Scott Gourley | Jul 13, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
“SWIMMER’S CALCULUS” SOUNDS more like advanced mathematics than anything to do with teeth, but it’s actually the term for yellow or brown stains a swimmer can develop on their teeth after prolonged exposure to acidic chlorine ions in pool...
by Scott Gourley | Jul 6, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
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. While we get to benefit from modern dental care, braces, and root canal therapy here in the 21st century, the...
