“Smile which launched a thousand ships”
Helen of Troy was known for her “smile which launched a thousand ships”. Have you ever stopped to wonder why? A smile, they say is the cheapest gift you can give someone. When you smile sincerely, you make someone happy. A person who smiles a lot is known to be confident and self assured. Now [...]
The Tooth Fairy
Do something relaxing and mindless this weekend – after all, reducing stress is good for the body and soul, including the teeth and jaw. Perhaps take in The Tooth Fairy. Derek Thompson is ‘The Tooth Fairy’, a hard-charging minor league hockey player whose nickname comes from his habit of separating opposing players from their bicuspids. [...]
Are you under-performing?
No one ever told you that your jaw could help you perform better. That’s because no one knew. Hundreds of years ago, a few people were on to something: Ancient Greek athletes who bit down on leather straps for an edge during competition; Viking and Roman warriors who clamped down on leather bits for focus [...]
Oral Healthcare Can’t Wait
Financial hardships are placing individuals & families at risk of tooth decay, loss of teeth and even life threatening health problems. It should no longer be a surprise to discover that there is a link between inflammation of your gums and cardiovascular disease. People choosing to sacrifice personal dental health can face consequences that have [...]
Holy Halitosis!
According to Freakonomics: “ Listerine was invented in the 19th century as powerful surgical antiseptic. It was later sold, in a very distilled form, as both a floor cleaner and a cure for gonorrhea. But it wasn’t a runaway success until the 1920s, when it was pitched as a solution to “chronic halitosis”, the faux [...]
Flossing
We’re not necessarily recommending Cupcake or Bacon flavored floss (but they are really available on the world wide web), but we would like you to know that flossing is important to good oral and overall health. Brushing without flossing is comparable to cleaning only 65% of your body leaving the 35% dirty which simply means [...]
Dentistry in Olympic Proportion
About 72 dentists and dental assistants are volunteering at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Their services are needed because of the nature of high impact winter sports and to treat things like tooth sensitivity, decay or even perform a root canal. – Metro News Service
Smile for the New Year!
A SMILE It cost nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the [...]
Radiate Confidence and Self-Esteem
Have you checked your level of self-confidence lately? Did you know that having low self-confidence is like being in freefall when you’re in business or even going about your day to day life? You have to be confident within yourself in order to project confidence. You also have to project confidence if you want to [...]
Cure For Bad Breath on the Horizon
Canadians everywhere are inundated with reminders to brush and floss to prevent gum disease, and yet many who practice acceptable levels of oral hygiene are still plagued by bad breath and bleeding gums. Everybody suffers bad breath at one point in time or another, but some people are afflicted by a condition known as chronic [...]
