Bad Idea #47: DIY Dentistry
With prices for nearly everything seeming to continually jump - stretching your budget and stressing you out - it’s easy to get sucked into the DIY revolution, especially with so many easy-to-find fixes on the internet. In a lot of ways, the marriage of DIY with...
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The Two-Way Street Between Oral Hygiene & Inflammation
Prevention is the best medicine, especially when it comes to gum disease, which affects nearly all adults. For it’s not just a matter of keeping your teeth in your mouth - untreated periodontal disease ultimately means tooth loss - but also supporting your whole...
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The Present of Presence This Holiday Season
With the whirlwind of the season in full swing, it’s easy to get caught up in the holiday hustle, especially when it comes to presents. Stores are open late, and you’re inundated with ads promising the perfect holiday gifts for each and every loved one. Your...
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More Electric Scooters, More Dental & Facial Injuries
Many major cities are facing a new transportation challenge - those rentable dockless electric scooters that popped up here in St. Louis early last year. They’re certainly popular, and for plenty of reasons. All you need to do is download an app, find the nearest...
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From Our Archives: Sometimes a Toothache Isn’t Really a Toothache
If your teeth hurt, it usually means that you have a dental issue; but “usually” isn’t always. Sometimes tooth pain can have nothing to do with the teeth at all. One of the most common causes of non-dental toothache is pain from the muscles involved in chewing....
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Movement on the Mercury-Free Front
Amid ever-growing awareness of the risk mercury amalgam poses to your health and the health of the environment, and with many other countries in the process of phasing it out, here in the states, the FDA has seemed stuck and silent on the issue. But last week, an...
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Getting Real About “Plant-Based Butter”
They can call it a commercial all they want, but some folks might call it a horror show: And Little Cammie’s refusal to eat anything except buttered noodles is just the half of it. There’s also the fact that, despite the feel-good, nature-invoking label, this new...
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Who’s Calling the Shots When It Comes to Your Online Search?
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . . Bet you’ve heard that one before, even if you didn’t have to read Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities back in high school. And if it’s trivia night and you can’t remember anymore who wrote it, just punch it into...
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The Difference a Fun & Flavorful Label Can Make When It Comes to Eating Your Veggies
When it comes to healthy eating, are you looking at that glass of spinach smoothie or your mug of herbal tea as half-empty or half-full? Sounds silly, but attitude can indeed affect your appetite - including the foods you choose to enjoy. A new study out of...
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It’s The Season For Sugar-Free Halloween Hijinks
Halloween can be a pretty scary time, especially if you have kids at home. It has nothing to do with terrifying clown masks, fake blood, or even the thorny question of how-old-is-too-old to trick-or-treat. Nope. It’s that Sugar Season is here once again. It’s...
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