Last Saturday the White Clinic opened its doors to my friends from Mundo a Sorrir and their amazing project “Dr. Risadas”. I have talked about Mundo a Sorrir quite a lot these past months. They believe that good oral health is a fundamental right, and that’s something I will always support. Having a healthy mouth […]
I’ve been writing here about oral care throughout the ages for some time now and today I want to talk about how people did it 200 years ago. During the late 1700s and the early 1800s, not a lot had changed since medieval ages, and people still cleaned their teeth with ashes of burnt spices […]
As I’ve said here before, our body is a complex and often mysterious system, and sometimes things that seem totally unrelated are more connected than we think. One example of such seemingly unrelated events is how some people can develop earaches when they have a problem with their teeth. The mouth and the ears are […]
We like to think of the Dark Ages as a time of, well, darkness. But this a very misleading name for medieval times, and things weren’t for sure as dark as they seem from our XXIth century perspective. Of course, if you ask me whether we take better care of our teeth now, you can […]
