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Until about a decade ago, good mouthguards came from the dentist. Designed from a cast of the wearer’s dental impression, the fit has to be specific to the bite in order for it to be the optimum safeguard against oral damage or dentofacial injuries from the unfortunate smash of equipment or an opponent. A mouthguard…

Imagining being someone of special needs is a more than challenging task for someone whose life and circumstance have genetically and statistically blessed them to only have to imagine it. The breadth and depth of what that special need, or tailored service encompasses is as extensive as a bloom of lion’s mane jellyfish with tentacles…

Life’s experiences are the result of imprints, influences and environment. Neural pathways, early childhood, family dynamics … that sort of stuff, and a whole load of it. So will sensitive people with sensitive teeth need sensitive toothpaste more than macho meatheads? All of it has its basis in genetics. Sensitivity is spelled out in nucleotides:…

The year of impermanence for Tina Turner, Sinéad O’Connor, Jeff Beck, Raquel Welsh, Matthew Perry and Alan Arkin saw a reddit thread on something more durable: tooth tattoos. That same year Julian Sands went for a hike in the severe winter weather of Southern California where he remained for five months until what remained of…

At Pitt Street Dental Centre, you can have your coffee and get your teeth whitened too. It’s a weekday afternoon at the clinic in Sydney’s CBD and I’m gulping a latte, trying not to think about how my coffee habit will discolour my chompers over time. The website of the clinic – “a five-star longevity…

There is plenty to enjoy about living in Sydney, but finding time to look after yourself can be difficult. For anyone working in the CBD, the day might start with an early commute and a coffee, followed by meetings, deadlines and lunch squeezed in at your desk. Evenings bring their own responsibilities, and it can…

There was a time when brushing your teeth twice a day wasn’t even a thing. Hard to believe, really; particularly when a smile forms such a large part of how others perceive us. Unfairly or not, it’s a status symbol aesthetic that it seems we care more about in appearance than the serious consequences of…

We can’t think of Tim Curry and not think of his teeth … Tim Curry was beautiful. Beautiful in mode and manner, interpretation and expression, he cut an artistic legacy through gender and generations, stage and screen. Beautiful in theatrical fearlessness, he brought counter-culture, pop culture, vaudeville and pantomime to screaming union through a sensual…

Any light shed on gum disease is a very welcome thing. It affects more than 70% of the world population and is responsible for more than just wrecking your gums. It earns its global health issue rock-star status because it’s a disease that travels to parts not only far and wide, but to places previously…

Jump. The first thing you think of, at the mention of Eddie Van Halen. Not oral cancer, also referred to as mouth cancer or oral cavity cancer, which is what Eddie Van Halen’s ultimately fatal cancer began as, a cancer of the lips, tongue, gums, inner lining of the cheeks, or the floor or roof…