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Breaking the Binkie Habit
Sometimes pacifiers suck. Credit: Corbis
Pacifiers are a mom's best friend, until they're not.
Whether binkie, blanket or thumb, babies need an outlet for their natural urge to suck. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as it enables infants ...
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Low-Income Families Have Trouble Finding Dental Care for Kids
Poor families suffer from a lack of good dental care. Credit: paigewatkins, Flickr
When a 12-year-old Maryland boy died from an untreated tooth infection two years ago, it started a bigger discussion about the need to provide dental care to ...
Grandma Bites Baby
It's an old joke -- "Dog bites man" isn't news; "Man bites dog" is. In a similar vein, a baby biting her grandmother is no big deal, but a grandmother biting her infant granddaughter -- well, that's news. And so we have the case of Penny L. Huston ...DailyDish - Brushing teeth is as easy as A-B-C
Make sure your kids brush their teeth long enough with this simple trick ...
Could fluoride cure England's bad dental rep?
The British have long had a reputation for bad teeth, but now the government has a plan that may address that in future generations -- they want to add fluoride to nearly half the nation's water supply. (There's no word on how they'll keep it ...Tooth Tunes, music for your mouth
I was at Walgreens yesterday getting a prescription filled and, as usual, found myself wandering the aisles while I waited for my drugs. I suspect stores like this make a lot of money from people like me who aren't content to sit in a chair and wait. ...Why our tooth-fairy is so generous
Unlike Angelina Jolie, we are not counted among the uber-rich. Heck, we're not even what you'd call wealthy, let alone independently so. So why does our tooth fairy hand out five-dollar bills for what was once a twenty-five-cent tooth? It turns out ...
M is for Molar
So Jared had his big day at the dentist on Wednesday. He needed to have a tooth pulled because of an abscess in his gum between the baby tooth and permanent tooth. I picked him up at 10am for his 11am appointment, less than half an hour after school ...
Coming soon: chocolate toothpaste
In what might just have children everywhere dancing in the streets as they rub candy on their teeth, researchers at Tulane University has discovered that chocolate may just be better for your teeth than fluoride toothpaste. Okay, not quite. An ...
Flouride in infant formula
The American Dental Association has issued an interesting "interim guidance" on the use of fluoridated water to reconstitute powdered or concentrated formula. In a nutshell, they are, pending further research, recommending that parents and caregivers ...
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