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Father Knew Best
Many of the wonders of modern medicine trace their roots to people and events thousands of years ago. One of those ingenious people was Hippocrates, the father of clinical medicine. Hippocrates discovered that a certain willow tree bark contained "salicin," which he gave to his father to ease his father's pain.
Much later, in the early 1800s, a simple academic research project resulted in a product known as "acetylsalicylic acid," the main ingredient in today's aspirin. Over 2000 years earlier, Hippocrates had given "aspirin" to his father.
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Rub a Dub Dub
I'm not sure if the three tub occupants in the nursery rhyme "Rub-a-Dub-Dub" had a spotless tub, but I do know how important it is to have spotless teeth.
Your teeth can become stained from an infection, a fever, fluoride, or a mishap when the enamel on your teeth was developing, for example. We often see stain or discoloration in children’s permanent teeth, but adults, too, sometimes have teeth that need a little intervention to make them dazzling white.
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Share and Share Alike
Someone may have shared their special warm and fuzzy feeling with you when you were a child. You may have shared your special warm and fuzzy feeling with someone else.
You could be one of the 85 percent of the world population who has experienced a warm and fuzzy feeling. Once you have that special warm and fuzzy feeling, you will get it again and again.
This isn't an ordinary warm and fuzzy feeling. This warm and fuzzy feeling has a special zing to it. First, this feeling turns into tingling sensation. A couple days later it turns into a nasty red blister on your lip. You have a herpes simplex 1 virus, commonly known as a cold sore or fever blister. And it's very contagious.
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Are We There Yet?
Your bags are packed and in the trunk of your car. You made a list and checked it twice. Swimsuits—check. Extra socks—check. Toothbrushes—check. Newspaper carrier—check. Everyone excitedly piles into the family auto and you are on your way to get a few days R&R.
As you get out of the car at your destination, you stub your toe and stumble headlong onto the pavement. Ouch! Your lip feels pulverized and your front tooth hurts. Checking in the mirror you see that you chipped your front tooth and it's wiggling.
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Wisecrackers Needn't Apply
The 'tween/teen years can be challenging. It takes a lot of energy and patience making the transition to young adulthood. Taking a driver's test. Dating. Applying for a job. Trying out "adult" wisdom. This is no place for wisecracking. Believe-it-or-not, inside your mouth is no place for "wisecracking" either.
During late teen-hood and into your early 20s, the third molars, better known as wisdom teeth, are erupting. Don't be fooled by their name. They are not wise. Sometimes they don't erupt in a timely manner. They only partially erupt, or don't erupt at all. The result of those three situations plagues people of all ages, not just 'tweens and teens. [Image is a partially-erupted wisdom tooth]
Some time after you should have had your wisdom teeth, you might have noticed swollen lymph nodes in your neck. You may have had a bad taste in your mouth and pain in the gum tissue around one of your wisdom teeth.
Ahhhh, likely those symptoms were telltale signs that you had a condition called "pericoronitis." "Peri" means "around," "coron(a)" means "crown," and "itis" means "inflammation." You had an infection in the soft tissues that surrounded a partially-erupted wisdom tooth.
When a wisdom tooth partially pushes up through the gingiva (soft gum tissue), it leaves a small flap of gum covering an area on the top of the tooth. When you eat, tiny ...