Are you like Bucky Beaver? Just “brush a brush a brush a” all day and all night but your breath never ever smells better? It may be an indication that something more serious is happening to your health deep in your organs. The chemical reactions vary for different conditions and a consequence of those reactions can often be smelled. If …
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Part 3
It’s more out of life then [sic] just ice in your grill In part two of this blog, we covered how Ryan Lochte broke the mold and introduced grillz as jewelry for everyone, not just African-American, male, hip hop fans. This changed the game and to this day in 2019, grillz have remained a popular jewelry piece among celebrities, especially …
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Part 2
Diamonds on my neck, diamonds on my grill In part one of our blog we discussed the qualities, demographics, and a brief history of hip hop culture and grillz. Today we’re gonna talk about what happened after the fall of grillz and how the dead trend made a comeback, hitting the mainstream media through an unlikely source. While grillz were …
What is a Root Canal?
Getting to the Root of the Problem Dental pain can seem like the worst kind of pain. For example, when you fall and scrape your knee, it will hurt. Though it hurts, you still will be able to talk, eat, and go about your day-to-day life. But with dental pain, your whole demeanor can change; you won’t want to do …
What Your Teeth Can Reveal To Your Dentist
The dentist takes one look at the patient and says, “Hmmmm, it looks like you grew up in a country near the equator, you probably experience headaches, and you had a mouth piercing.” “Dentist, how did you know?” the patient exclaims. “Oh, just making a guess,” the dentist says with a twinkle in his eye. When you come in for …
6 More Areas Where Teeth Are Useful (Besides Chewing)
In our last blog post, we covered some of the things (besides chewing) that teeth are useful for. See part 1 here if you missed that post. We think you’ll agree that teeth are extremely useful things, and we sure wouldn’t want to do without them. In today’s post, we’ll cover a number of other areas of life where you …
Your Teeth Are Useful For These 5 Things (Besides Chewing)
We all know that our teeth are useful for chewing. However, how often have you thought of the many other things that your teeth do for you? Unless you experience the loss of teeth, you never realize the many things that your teeth were useful for besides chewing food. Plus, there are a couple of other uses for teeth that …
Happy New Year from Joshua Colkmire, DDS
We wish you all a happy and blessed 2018! We are deeply grateful to each and every one of our patients, suppliers, neighbors, and friends in the community who helped make 2017 what it was, and we look forward to a year to come that is full of more reasons to be grateful. As we keep on creating beautiful smiles …
Navigating Dental Coverage After Retirement
Retirement can be a fun season of life, one where you finally have enough time to enjoy all the things you couldn’t do when you were working. You finally get to travel, spend time with your family, pursue your hobbies, volunteer, and rest when you need to. At least, that’s the illusion of retirement. For many people, the flip side …
6 Things You Should Know About A Toothache (part 2)
In our last blog post, we covered a few things that you should know if you are experiencing a toothache. Severe tooth pain isn’t common, but if it happens, you should be careful to get it looked at by a dentist right away, because it is most likely an abscess, which won’t go away on its own. Here are some …