Everyone wants to enjoy the benefits of tip-top oral hygiene: a pearly white smile, fresh-smelling breath, and healthy pink gums. Making sure your mouth stays healthy is a major reason for visiting the dentist — and there’s nothing like that squeaky-clean feeling you get all around your mouth after you’ve had a routine checkup and…
A patient has a small lump after she bit her cheek months ago. It seems to get in her way and, every so often, she bite it again. The dentist sent her to an oral surgeon to have it biopsied. Is it dangerous? Most likely, it’s a description for a traumatic fibroma (“traumatic” – injury;…
Taking care of one’s teeth and gums is as important for senior citizens as it is for youngsters — if not more so. After all, the state of an elderly person’s oral health can have a significant bearing on quality of life: how comfortably he or she can eat, speak, and smile. Poor oral health…
People with asthma are almost one fifth more likely to experience gum disease, a recent study in the Journal of Periodontology reveals. Roughly 235 million people around the globe experience asthma — an inflammatory disease that narrows and inflames the airways, therefore resulting in symptoms like difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing, and tightening of the chest. This condition…
Unfortunately, sources that rank high on a Google search do not always rank high on truth. So let’s set the record straight: Root canal treatment does not cause cancer or any other disease. The fact is that root canal treatment—performed 25 million times every year by skilled dental professionals—stops infection and saves teeth. Let’s take…
It’s actually not surprising that your father’s dentist was the first to discover signs of gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Though it is a digestive condition, GERD can damage teeth and gums by allowing powerful stomach acids to flow back up the digestive tract and into the mouth. It can also cause other health problems….
A company founded by Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM) researcher Scott Kachlany, PhD, has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to treat cancer patients with a therapy based on Kachlany’s discovery that a protein produced by an oral bacterium can kill leukemia and lymphoma cells. The approval allows Kachlany’s company, Actinobac Biomed,…
INTRODUCTION Social Media has arguably become a global obsession. For teenagers and young adults, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok have become the most common platforms for communication. If you have ever left your feeds feeling bad about yourself, you are not alone! Self-esteem often takes a hit when one starts comparing him- or herself…