Most children get saddled with retainers very early on in life and then have to wear them every single night for several months to make sure that their permanent teeth grow out the right way. Children who were not “gifted” with retainers can either spend the rest of their lives looking at their crooked smiles in their mirrors or ...
Age may indeed bring wisdom, but it surely is not gentle on one’s teeth as my grandfather had to discover when his right incisor broke in half without any forewarning and had to be removed.
After a long day at work and an even longer work week, it was finally Friday evening – Hooray! Alright then, off to a few cold ones with a few colleagues to let off some steam. I had already noticed it a few days earlier. On the way to the bar, it became even more noticeable. And once we sat down for a chat while waiting for our drinks, it only became worse ...
The new year had just started, Vienna had finally seen its first real snowfall of the winter season, and the “Wiener Eistraum” ice skating rink in front of city hall had just opened its gates. “Alright then – let’s go have a Holiday on Ice!”
You brush your teeth twice, or maybe even three times, every day and always use dental floss as well – and yet, that pesky dental calculus keeps building up on the teeth’s surface ...
On a beautiful Wednesday morning in the late spring earlier this year, I was on the way to my next regular dental checkup. Though I had never really had any issues during previous visits, I still felt this weird feeling overcome me ever so slowly ...
Not too long ago, I was going to boxing training almost every day not only to always remain super fit but also to share the pain of body-weight and balancing exercises with a group of fellow sufferers. During one of our weekly Sparring Sessions, however, things got a little too heated and suddenly the spectators could see a tooth flying through the air ...
After weeks, months, and years of eating yummy food, one of my teeth started hurting. “Oh oh, hopefully this’ll just be a little boo boo …” I thought jokingly to myself but a dentist visit soon thereafter brought the inconvenient truth to the forefront: my tooth root was infected ...
When I was a child, there was a time when I had to wear a retainer every night to push my growing teeth into the right positions. However, not everybody was lucky enough to receive the “gift” of a retainer as a child ...