How can you help patients who bite their nails? Onychophagia, as we know it, may provide temporary comfort to patients when they feel stressed, nervous, or bored, but the habit does a lot more damage than they know. As their dentists, we need to help them stop biting...
Gum disease has been linked to all sorts of ailments, from heart disease to diabetes. And if you have rheumatoid arthritis, it can certainly be exacerbated by poor gum health. In fact, a recent article at Medline Plus discusses this link further, citing that a...
If you’ve taken a look at Dentistry IQ’s website lately, you may have seen lots of guest blogs by Dr. Richard Nagelberg about periodontal disease. While Nagelberg mainly addresses his colleagues and encourages them to change old habits, much of what he...
Whenever you brush and floss or visit the dentist, you most likely are focusing on how your teeth are doing. If gums are occasionally tender, what’s the big deal, right? The truth is, your gum health doesn’t just affect your gums. For instance, if you run...
