Building a Daily Oral Care Routine That Sticks

I don’t love the pressure of a ‘new year, new me.’ Instead, I think it’s much healthier to wake up every day and start fresh with a few thoughts about how you can make TODAY well-rounded and healthy. It’s about creating sustainable habits, not overnight transformations. And when it comes to oral health, this approach Read More

5 Tooth Damaging Nervous Habits You Need to Break

Often repetitive and involuntary, stress induced nervous habits can actually cause damage to your teeth.  Here are five of the most dangerous nervous habits that you need to break if you want to protect your teeth.   Fingernail Biting One of the most common self soothing habits we see from childhood involves sticking our hands Read More

October is National Dental Hygiene Month

It’s National Dental Hygiene Month so let’s celebrate! I am a a proud member of the American Dental Hygienist’s Association and I would first like to thank them for fighting to help our profession continue to grow and evolve.  As health care providers that understand the oral-systemic link, hygienists like myself are on a mission to guide our Read More

Morsicatio Buccarum

Calling all word nerds and vocabulary buffs! Today I would like very much to talk about morsicatio buccarum, the condition we commonly refer to as cheek bite.  This type of chronic irritation of the cheek comes from friction and pressure.  When the teeth scrape and mash up against the inside of the cheek, our body Read More