by Scott Gourley | Oct 6, 2021 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
YOU’VE PROBABLY HEARD the expression “long in the tooth.” It conjures up the image of gum recession as a synonym for growing old, and yet gum recession isn’t always connected to age. This oral health problem is when the gingival tissue shrinks...
by Scott Gourley | Sep 29, 2021 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
HOW DO YOU choose the right toothpaste out of the wall of colorful boxes on the store shelf? Is it better to get the one that claims cavity prevention, breath-freshening, whitening, sensitivity, or tartar-fighting? Let’s see if we can help our patients narrow...
by Scott Gourley | Sep 1, 2021 | Blog, dental post, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
POTENTIAL SIDE EFFECTS are a concern with pretty much every medication that exists. We can all hear the drug commercial voice rattling off a list of them in our heads. Unfortunately, side effects from medications often overlap with oral health concerns, even when the...
by Scott Gourley | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
THERE WAS SOMETHING rotten in the state of England during the Early Modern Era: everyone’s sweet tooth! The English loved the expensive new commodity of sugar so much that the royalty and nobility were extremely prone to tooth decay and foul breath. Foul breath seems...
by Scott Gourley | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
THE OLD LINE “it takes fewer muscles to smile than frown” isn’t actually true. It takes at least ten muscles to smile but as few as six to frown, so maybe the saying should be something like “you burn more calories when you smile than when you frown!” instead....
by Scott Gourley | Jul 14, 2021 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
WHEN WE PICTURE people of earlier eras, particularly pre-industrial ones, we tend to assume that they must have had really bad teeth. While it definitely is easier to get high-quality dental care these days, not to mention modern orthodontics and modern root canal...
