Dental Blog
Tooth 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…
Bizarre 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…
Three 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…
Jobs 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…
What is the hardest thing that can be crushed by my teeth?
As many of you no doubt have wondered, I was curious how many things on earth I could actually crunch with my teeth. Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, leading one to question why humans do not have an armor-like hide composed of this amazing organic substance. At 5 mohs (the…
Street Dentist in India Charges $2
At some point in your life, you are going to need a dentist. If you’ve never needed a dentist, you are a particularly lucky and probably a divine being of some kind. For the rest of us mortals, we need someone to make sure our teeth are in properly working order and are not causing…
Calgary Removes Flouride From Water Supply
Calgary has successfully removed fluoride from their water supply. The chief medical officer of Calgary was fairly unhappy, because fluoride, as you may know, is good for people’s teeth. And yummy! Ok maybe not yummy. One of our team members was recently in Calgary and talked with a local patient. They said their dentist was…
3 Ancient Myths About Children’s Teeth
The legend of the tooth fairy is actually quite an old story. It came from early Europe hundreds of years ago. However, there are even older, stranger myths about children losing their first few teeth. 1) They Protect You in the Afterlife In early England, children were instructed to burn their baby teeth. There…
Crowning Dark Teeth After Trauma and Root Canal
I present you with a dental case dealing with traumatic injury causing discoloration of the teeth and how the issue was resolved. The patient has a history of trauma to her two teeth in the front. As a result the teeth have died off and become darkly stained. They had a root canal to prevent…
Rat Teeth as Strong as Metal
Everyone knows that rats are a nuisance in many ways. Once, they get into your house, they eat your food and leave a mess everywhere they. Plus they carry diseases and bacteria like its going out of style. Many people try to prevent their homes from being infested with rats. However, it turns out that…