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Toothpaste is made up of three main components; abrasives, fluorides and detergents, and is primarily used to remove dental plaque and food stuck in teeth. But this paste fights and prevents more than plaque and tooth decay. From preventing condensation on mirrors to polishing brass, here are Dental Sky's 12 unusual uses for toothpaste. For more conventional uses check out Dental Sky's range...
Last year more than 7,500 people were diagnosed with oral cancer in the UK. In just a decade the disease has grown by a third, and of all the advances there have been in battling cancer, it is one of the few cancers that is actually predicted to increase. Of course there are several risk factors that are heavily linked to the disease, such as smoking, but oral cancer can affect anyone. Mout...
Are you happy? If you are there's a 90% chance that you're smiling right now! There may be a lot of confusing, hard to read facial expressions but smiling is the universal sign of happiness. It's a common myth that it takes less muscles to smile than it does to frown, and although we don't quite know exactly how many muscles are used there are plenty of reasons to smile each day. Here are a...
Besides professional fighters, babies and maybe your local drunk, everyone has teeth. Despite the fact that we use them on a regular basis we don't really give our teeth much thought past the formality of brushing and flossing. Our teeth are efficient tools (and apparently great accessory items!) that have always been recognised as an important part of the body. Believe it or not but dentis...
Many practitioners will be familiar with the knowledgeable patient who knows so much, courtesy of ‘Doctor Google!’ but sadly some patients really do try and take their treatment into their own hands. We recently experienced a member of the public calling up to order some impression material. When asked why they wanted to purchase it, they said they’d chipped a tooth and wanted to also bu...
