Kanye West has every reason to smile. A beautiful wife. A beautiful daughter. A fortune worth an estimated $130 million. A cultural legacy that will probably outlive anyone alive today. And yet, he is a man who doesn’t smile. And recently he shared the reason why. Kanye’s Reasons Kanye said that he has two reasons he doesn’t smile:
Read Dental StoryAs part of the battle over the legalization of marijuana use in California and across the country, people have been disputing whether marijuana causes the same negative health consequences as tobacco. Now a new study shows that the two types of smoking share at least one common consequence: gum disease.
Read Dental StoryIf you are wanting to look more attractive, perhaps it’s time to spend less time preparing your makeup and more time smiling. Research indicates that people consider smiling faces more attractive than those wearing makeup.
Read Dental StoryResearchers this week created a minor Internet sensation when they published a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope that seemed to show the universe smiling at us.
Read Dental StoryWant to get a second opinion about the appearance of your smile? Soon, you’ll be able to get an objective assessment of the many qualities of your smile from a smile-rating app that is being tested in Japan before it becomes generally available next year.
Read Dental StoryAccording to new research by a team of German dentists, athletes put their teeth at risk when they train hard. Exertion and the use of sports nutrition products put their teeth at risk of danger that causes their teeth to erode at a significantly faster rate, and the hardest trainers were also at increased risk for cavities.
Read Dental StoryGum disease is a cornerstone illness that threatens not just our teeth, but also our kidneys, our heart, and even our life. Combatting gum disease is critical, and it can often be accomplished using antibiotics. But with the growth of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, people are looking for new strategies for controlling gum disease, and it seems that the exciting new material graphene might just be one of them.
Read Dental StoryWe’ve talked before about how diabetes can make gum disease worse, and how gum disease can make it harder for you to control your blood sugar levels. What we haven’t really seen before is good evidence that treating gum disease can help you bring your blood sugar levels under control.
Read Dental StoryWhen we wrote earlier about natural supplements that help gum disease, we weren’t aware of the results of a brand-new study published confirming that another natural supplement may help improve your gum health: Omega-3 fatty acids, particularly the DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) variety has recently been shown to provide substantial improvement in the health of gum tissues.
Read Dental StoryIt’s an old truism: “smile and the whole world smiles with you, cry and you’re crying alone.” Now researchers have found that this is really true, partly because when you’re smiling, you think other people are, too, even if they’re not.
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