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3 Celebrities With Dental Implants
Having a perfect smile is a must for Hollywood stars. Everyone expects celebrities to be perfect in every way, but in reality they are people just like you and I. Anyway, when something happens to a celebrities teeth, they are very quick to fix the problem. Sometimes it is necessary to replace a missing tooth,…
Read MorePermanent Teeth Growing Under Baby Teeth
It alarms a number of parents when they see permanent teeth growing under baby teeth. It really confuses them that, aren’t the permanent teeth supposed to grow up after the baby teeth have fallen? Usually, as the permanent teeth outgrow a little, the bases of the milk teeth loosen and the baby tooth falls out. It…
Read MoreWisdom Teeth Basics
Many people have common questions about their wisdom teeth and we are here to answer the most common ones. Let’s take a look at the basics of wisdom teeth and hopefully answer some of your questions along the way. The number one question that we receive is do wisdom teeth need to come out at…
Read MoreTeeth That Can Make You Famous
Taking the bit between your teeth might lead you into trouble. To swap trouble for fame and recognition, you only have to replace the bit with a rope. At least, that’s what Zholt Sinka from Hungary did in order to enter the Guinness Book of Records. The rope itself would not impress the Guinness…
Read MoreHave you shared your toothbrush recently?
What are the risks of sharing toothbrushes with others? And has awareness of them lead to a buy-new-toothbrushes for guests trend?
Read MoreTooth Battles of Nature: Venomous Snake Versus Tarantula
This clash is obviously about fangs, which, as explored in an earlier post, can be yours for the simple price of having someone file your teeth into points. In fact, it is about two species with venomous, hollow fangs. But whose are better, the extremely long, pointy, kind as exhibited by the cobra, or the…
Read MoreTooth Battles of Nature: Sabre-toothed Cat versus African Elephant
An icon of the giant teeth history books. The world’s largest, heaviest teeth. If you had to make an informed snap judgement probably based on something completely personal and arbitrary about who had the best teeth, who would win? Sabre-toothed Cat (Smilodon) Smilodon is best known for the two eleven inch canine teeth which are…
Read MoreBizarre Tooth Modification: Tooth Filing
When someone says to you “I think my teeth are dull”, your conditioned response is “you should have them whitened”. This is good advice only when the individual it is directed at is not commenting on the actual ability of his teeth to puncture and cut things. If one is worried about whether ones teeth…
Read MoreThree Desserts that Will Destroy Your Tooth Enamel
Here is a small list of foods that contain multiple agents responsible for tooth decay and enamel damage. If you love going to the dentist, or if you want to sabotage some poor smile model, these foods represent a perfect storm of cavity creation, ranging from obvious to less obvious and somewhat surprising: A bag…
Read MoreJobs of the Future: Tooth Engineer?
As explored in an earlier post, tooth enamel is the hardest and most mineralized organic substance produced by the body. Despite this fact, tooth enamel is susceptible to a long lifetime of assault in the form of damage and decay, and is unable to regenerate itself. This is due to the fact that the enamel…
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