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One of the first things you notice when someone opens their mouth is the color and shape of their teeth. Over time, the constant contact with colorful foods and drinks will take its toll and cause discoloration. Sometimes, it is a bad habit or even a medication that causes your teeth to dull. To reverse [...]

Some medical problems do not arise until you start to feel the effects of the physical damage that it eventually causes. This is the case with bruxism, which involves the grinding or clenching of teeth. Bruxism is seen as both a medical and dental problem since it involves your teeth and all of the surrounding [...]

People pick up bad habits in all stages of life, many of which begin at a young age. Teeth grinding is one of those things you may do, and don’t have a clue when it’s taking place – mostly because you are asleep when it happens. To help break this damaging practice, you might want [...]

When you feel like passing on ice cream or avoiding hot tea because of your teeth, you are experiencing an issue that affects 45 million adults in the United States. Hypersensitivity arises when you feel discomfort in a tooth (or teeth) after eating cold or hot foods and liquids. Sometimes, even breathing cold air can [...]

Mustaches are generally reserved for the upper lip of a man, but for women, some may experience a little hair growth that has their skin looking darker than usual. It’s not just a little peach fuzz that can make the upper lip of a woman appear darker. Hormones can cause darkening of the skin and [...]

All women have some sort of hair on their upper lip, which for most is fine or lightly colored. However, some females deal with darker hair that can cause self-consciousness and low self-esteem. The hair casts a shadow on their upper lip that is quite noticeable. Luckily, home remedies for upper lip hair can help [...]

Before puckering up, you should know that the lips go through a lot of everyday obstacles in order to maintain their health. From windy, cold days to an overall lack of moisture, you’re often left with a less-than-desirable appearance. However, with the help of common household items, you can easily make home remedies for lips [...]

An underlying condition or lifestyle habits can make the inside of your mouth feel like a desert. This unusual dryness is a common problem that affects people of all ages. To make matters worse, the dryness can trigger other health issues and concerns. Luckily, many people can easily take advantage of home remedies for dry [...]

There are some medical conditions that make you feel as if your mouth is on fire. Symptoms can make it difficult to enjoy everyday activities, eat food and consume drinks. To calm the inferno inside your mouth, you should consider trying out home remedies for burning tongue. What is a Burning Tongue? Attacking every corner [...]

Let’s say you just finished brushing your teeth and your spittle is tainted pink or red. Bleeding gums is a common occurrence and can mean many things for your oral health. From a bacteria overload to bad habits catching up with you, there could be an array of reasons behind your condition. Thankfully, home remedies [...]

Just when you thought eating onions and garlic was the only way to suffer a case of bad breath, other factors contribute to the medical condition also known as halitosis. Perhaps you’re being lax in your dental health or another issue lurks in the shadows of your medical chart. As you learn the culprits behind [...]

When teeth are beyond fillings and root canals, one of the last measures a dentist will take to avoid pain and infection is to completely remove an offending tooth. Following the procedure, a patient may experience a range of symptoms that home remedies for a pulled tooth can ease. The Aftermath of a Pulled Tooth [...]

Sipping coffee or tea throughout the day. Brightly colored red juices. Blueberries and cherries bursting with flavor. Sounds good on the surface, but a nightmare for your teeth. According to the American Dental Association, coffee and cigarettes pose the biggest threat for stained teeth, but there’s a great deal of offensive materials and substances that [...]

It’s the kind of pain that keeps you up all night – pulsating, dull, intense, sharp, or periodic. Tooth pain can strike without a moment’s notice or gradually build into a bundle of irritated nerves. In some of the worst cases, other parts of the body, such as the ears or head, become involved. However, [...]

Puckering up for a fresh kiss is hard to do when your lips are irritated and chapped. Since lips do not generate the natural oils that protects against low humidity and damaging cold winds, they may suffer when the weather or your surroundings change. It’s quite common to suffer chapped lips, but the physical appearance [...]

No, the term ‘thrush’ is not just used to describe a songbird. Believe me – you don’t want to sing the same song as a certain type of yeast called Candida, which can grow out of control and create an unwanted environment in the mouth that makes it difficult to eat your food, and even [...]

Have you ever eaten something and the hardness, crunchiness, saltiness or acidity irritated the inside of your mouth? Many ignore these signs for a while until they finally catch sight of an unattractive, disturbing oral sore while looking in the mirror. Although it looks pretty intimidating, canker sores are not a life-threatening or serious occurrence. [...]

Toothache is one ailment that can make your life miserable. The intense and unbearable pain won’t let you sleep, eat, drink or even draw in cold air through the mouth because of your tender tooth! Generally, toothache is caused when tooth decay invades or is about to infect the pulp chamber, which contains nerve endings [...]

Finding painful, bubble-like, fluid-filled red blisters in the region of the nose, lips and outer edges of the mouth can be unsettling, because you know these aren’t your everyday pimples. What may actually come as a shocker is these blisters, called cold sores, are caused by the most contagious strain of herpes, which attacks the [...]