4 Major Problems Dentists Are Seeing Because Of The Pandemic
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people avoided the dentist unless there was a real emergency (in fact, this is still the case for many). People have been afraid of the possibility of encountering COVID in public spaces — and, in the case of the dentist, afraid of having to take off their […]
Make the Diagnosis: Good That She Didn’t Ignore This
Presentation A 50-year-old woman with a long history of cigarette smoking asked her dentist about a white oral plaque that she noticed on the underside of her tongue. She thought it had been there for several months. It was not painful and didn’t seem to cause any other symptoms, but she was concerned it might […]
Great White Is Missing ‘Unusual’ Amount Of Teeth: ‘Anyone Know A Good Dentist?’
If there’s a dentist out there willing to treat an apex predator underwater, have we got a gig for you. A recent cage-diving expedition around Mexico’s Guadalupe Island revealed a great white shark with a crazy amount of teeth missing. (See the photo below.) Now, great whites often lose teeth when they hunt, but replacements […]