LOOKING into your mouth is in some ways like looking under the hood of your car. Both are dark and mysterious places, each having …

WITHOUT a doubt, the most important service you can do for yourself as a dental consumer is to be informed. Be aware of what …

‘GOING to the dentist’ is a familiar phrase, and, hopefully, a regular habit whenever and wherever the opportunity exists. However, there are people who, …

I SINCERELY believe that in the vast majority of countries, many people die daily of diseases that originated in the mouth but have resulted …

WHILE most people believe that the main cause of gum disease is poor oral hygiene, stress is equally to be blamed, as is poor …

WHEN the author of the biblical verse declared that it is what comes out of a man’s mouth that defiles him and not what …

I WON’T be surprised to learn I am the only dentist who would not perform root canal therapy on a patient’s tooth simply because …

Generally, unless health professionals were unusually insensitive to patients’ reactions, health education often had a patronising ring to it. Therefore, when a dental health …

In recent times there has been an unprecedented appearance of frequent advertisements in the local print media from dentists soliciting patients for dental implants. …

PATIENTS who visit their dentists to have their teeth ‘filed’ are really requesting an enameloplasty. This is simply the reshaping and contouring of the …