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Often considered a form of candy, and thus immediately filed under the “terrible for your teeth” food group, chewing gum has just started to have its image rehabilitated. It is important that this trend continue, as chewing gum can be good for your teeth, if used correctly. I intend to talk a little about this sticky, gooey substance, and how it can be used.

Cancer seems to be the final frontier of medicine, the only disease keeping humanity from the semi-utopian future envisioned in the minds of great sci-fi writers like Arthur C. Clarke, in which humans live for hundreds of years at a time. Every other disease can be contained, avoided, quarantined or outright cured, but cancer is much more difficult; it is the result of our own bodies turning against us, and killing us in the process, and as we cannot reprogram the human genome, and a lot of cancer is inoperable, and untreatable, it is the nightmare reality of all too many people world wide.

If you read any dental FAQ, you will find that relatively little amount of it is dealt with proper brushing and flossing techniques. It is usually mentioned that you need to have proper technique, but then no advice is given, it is always assumed that people know how to brush and floss; after all, it’s not that difficult a thing. The truth is that it is not a difficult thing, but you still need to be taught how to do it. So here we go, my take on proper brushing and flossing techniques.