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...
by Scott Gourley | Jun 29, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
TEETH HAVE MANY different uses, from chewing our food to helping us speak clearly to forming the structure of our faces. They also give us our smiles! These are the uses our teeth are for, but we risk causing serious damage to them when we use them as tools for other...
by Scott Gourley | Jun 8, 2022 | Blog, Dental Posts, Endo, General Dental, Ortho, Pediatric
THERE WON’T BE a pop-quiz later, but we still want our patients to be familiar with the anatomy of their teeth, starting with the crown and going down to the roots. Everything visible above the gums is the crown, which has three layers. Tooth Enamel On the...
