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Oral surgery is usually thought of as a last resort, desperate attempt to save your teeth, and sometimes that is exactly what it is. But usually, it just means that you have a problem that cannot be fixed by treating just the teeth, and that the soft tissues need to be dealt with, too. The two perhaps lightest and most routine oral surgical procedures are periodontal curettage and apical tooth resection. These scary sounding medical procedures are actually nothing special, and all their gear inducing power can be dispelled with a little explanation.

Just because you are over 60 does not mean that you have to lose your teeth. With proper oral healthcare in old age, you can keep them throughout your life. Keeping your own teeth is also correlated with better mental and physical health over all. Here are a few secrets to start you off on the right foot.

The best way to think about health is like a constant battle against the outside world. In this battle one of the main battlefields is our mouth, as this is an organ which we use to contact the outside world, and use it to chew parts of it up.

Smokers frequently feel indignant because many procedures will say that any and all guarantees are void if you smoke.

Dentists do not like oral piercings, and there is a considerable amount of misunderstanding as to why they don’t. Dentists are not opposed to oral piercings because they look ugly, or because they impede the treatment in any way, they do not like them because of the potentially negative effects of having a lip or tongue ring.

As we understand more and more of how human health works, and as more and more of the delicate and intricate interconnections surface, more and more delicate and intricate ways of healing are bound to arise.

I have a problem that I cannot seem to find a solution for on the internet, and do not know if a dentist should see it or not. Every once in a while (about every other month), for a few days I get a strange metallic taste in my mouth. My tongue usually swells up and some filmy stuff shows up on it. I cannot get rid of it, it seems like the more I scrub away there is more coming up, too. This usually lasts a couple of days and my mouth is really sore, and then it goes away. I also get a tingling sensation in the gums and on a tooth that was previously root canaled when this happens. There is no bleeding and no pain, just a kind of deep itching feeling. What is this that I have? Is it serious? Does it need to be seen by a professional?

I have been getting many letters recently about suspicious lumps appearing in peoples mouths, gums and tongue. The dear readers are always very upset, very frightened, and it is understandable, as they all suspect oral cancer. I wish I could just shrug these fears off as paranoid self centered delusions, but sadly, I cannot. As oropharyngeal cancers are on the rise, and are the fastest growing types of cancer, and is the one with the most victims among young people.

“Brushing hard is the way to go”, “you just inherit your bad teeth”, “‘you should brush after every meal.” These and many misconceptions like these are ingrained in our culture, and are doing a lot of harm.

Here is a list of 10 of the most common at home oral hygiene malpractices and mistakes that people commit frequently.