by Dr. Edward C. Yates | Apr 2, 2017 | Oral Health
Cavities can happen even before a baby has his first piece of candy. This was the difficult lesson actor David Ramsey of the TV shows Arrow and Dexter learned when his son DJ’s teeth were first emerging. “His first teeth came in weak,” Ramsey recalled in a recent...
by Dr. Edward C. Yates | Mar 18, 2017 | Oral Health
There are a lot of things we do without much conscious thought — habits we’ve developed over time. Some habits help streamline our lives for the good; others, though, hold us back or even harm us. A lot of these habits, both good and bad, form during our...
by Dr. Edward C. Yates | Mar 3, 2017 | Oral Health
When you’re among the top players in your field, you need every advantage to help you stay competitive: Not just the best equipment, but anything else that relieves pain and stress, and allows you to play better. For top-seeded Canadian tennis player Milos Raonic,...
by Dr. Edward C. Yates | Feb 1, 2017 | Oral Health
When Entertainment Tonight host Nancy O’Dell set out to teach her young daughter Ashby how to brush her teeth, she knew the surest path to success would be to make it fun for the toddler.“The best thing with kids is you have to make everything a game,” Nancy recently...
by Dr. Edward C. Yates | Jan 17, 2017 | Oral Health
It takes only a short time neglecting your oral hygiene before you begin to notice some unpleasant things with your gums: swelling, redness or even bleeding. These are all signs of gingivitis, a periodontal (gum) disease that arises from bacterial plaque, a thin...
by Dr. Edward C. Yates | Jan 2, 2017 | Oral Health
Is having good oral hygiene important to kissing? Who’s better to answer that question than Vivica A. Fox? Among her other achievements, the versatile actress won the “Best Kiss” honor at the MTV Movie Awards, for a memorable scene with Will Smith in the 1996...
