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9 Toothpaste Life Hacks
When Colgate invented modern toothpaste in the 1950s, they were trying to create a significant advancement in at-home oral care. But they got way more…
Why smiling is contagious
Smiling isn’t so much contagious as it is an involuntary reaction known as mirroring — the act of matching a person’s facial expression. Adrienne Wood,…
The DMFT Index: Healthy primary teeth by country
For more than 80 years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OCED) has been keeping stats on healthy primary teeth around the world. The…
A Sinus Infection and Tooth Pain
Spring time is sinus infection season for a few reasons. The most common culprit is the return of allergy season. If you’re a sufferer, you’re…
Teeth Whitening at Yonge and Eglinton
We’ve described the entire teeth whitening process on our website (there’s even a two-minute video describing the treatment). After a long, dreary winter, now’s the…
Protecting your teeth
Protecting your teeth is important to you. You brush twice a day. You floss regularly. You go to the dentist. These are all good things.…
February is Children’s Dental Health Month.
In 1941, a one-day event in Cleveland, Ohio, to raise money for a children’s dentist office went viral. By 1949, February 8th became National Children’s…
Valentine’s Day blog: Can a kiss spread gum disease?
You look deep into your lover’s eyes. Magic. Then, as you lean in for a kiss, you notice they have unhealthy gums. Should you pull…
Links between seasonal affective disorder and oral health
According to the Mood Disorders Association of Ontario, 15% of Canadians experience winter blues and 2 to 6% have seasonal affective disorder. That’s between 800,000…
Tooth sensitivity in winter. It’s real.
Here in Toronto, Old Man Winter is particularly angry this year. And after a few years of relatively mild temperatures, many of us around here…
Your child has a chipped tooth. Now what?
They say a dirty child is a happy child. The same is true for a child with a chipped tooth, because most of the time,…
Why do we floss our teeth? This is why.
Why do we floss our teeth? Well if you don’t floss your teeth, a good brushing will only get them 65% clean, which means 35%…
