Growing Beautiful Teeth

A great book for any caregiver to look after the health of their children's teeth. Covers growth, crooked teeth, tooth grinding, mouth breathing, jaws, nutrition and hygiene.

An NPR Best Book of 2017 "[Teeth is] . . . more than an exploration of a two-tiered system—it is a call for sweeping, radical change." —New York Times Book Review "Show me your teeth," the great naturalist Georges Cuvier is credited with saying, "and I will tell you who you are." In this shattering new work, veteran health journalist Mary Otto looks inside America's mouth, revealing unsettling truths about our unequal society. Teeth takes readers on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health. Otto's subjects include the pioneering dentist who made Shirley Temple and Judy Garland's teeth sparkle on the silver screen and helped create the all-American image of "pearly whites"; Deamonte Driver, the young Maryland boy whose tragic death from an abscessed tooth sparked congressional hearings; and a marketing guru who offers advice to dentists on how to push new and expensive treatments and how to keep Medicaid patients at bay. In one of its most disturbing findings, Teeth reveals that toothaches are not an occasional inconvenience, but rather a chronic reality for millions of people, including disproportionate numbers of the elderly and people of color. Many people, Otto reveals, resort to prayer to counteract the uniquely devastating effects of dental pain. Otto also goes back in time to understand the roots of our predicament in the history of dentistry, showing how it became separated from mainstream medicine, despite a century of growing evidence that oral health and general bodily health are closely related. Muckraking and paradigm-shifting, Teeth exposes for the first time the extent and meaning of our oral health crisis. It joins the small shelf of books that change the way we view society and ourselves—and will spark an urgent conversation about why our teeth matter.

This book tells you, in a nutshell, everything you need to know to have good teeth, plus all the common but unexpected things that also cause tooth damages, and dentists never had time to explain.Easy to read and includes over 100 coloured illustrations.It's based on almost 2 decades of clinical experience encountering unnecessary problems suffered by patients often through unawareness. Good general knowledge inspires adopting good habits and exercising cautions which form the first-line of health preservation.After reading this book you will know the 10 KEY CAUSES OF TOOTHACHES AND TOOTH LOSSES and realize that dental problems are avoidable. Knowledge is power and the relentless pursuit of happiness begins with perfect health. THIS BOOK EXPLAINS: 1. 10 KEY CAUSES OF TOOTHACHES AND TOOTH LOSSES. 2. 20 "GOLDEN DAILY PRECAUTIONS". 3. 4 VITAL PREVENTION MEASURES for children in Preventive Dentistry. 4. TOOTH REPAIR METHODS, materials and treatment options. 5. TOOTH REPLACEMENTS, dentures to implants 6. How losing teeth can ACCELERATE AGING. 7. BRACES. 8. FLUORIDE. 9. Achieving the most beautiful smile with Cosmetic Dentistry, from Tooth Bleaching, Veneers, Crowns, to tooth reshaping. 10. Brushing and flossing. 11. Dental plaque, tartar. 12. How to achieve THE PERFECT SMILE ! From business to social, a beautiful and radiant smile showing nice teeth is a charm-point and a "million dollar asset" every person can attain. The attractive smile you wear on your face is your image and is often photographed.It's distinctive, friendly, delightful, graceful and radiates joy.Good-looking teeth can remarkably enhance any given face.The appearance of your front teeth are so critical that if they were seriously flawed or missing, you couldn't leave home! With advancing age, eating well becomes fundamentally important.Good teeth preserves youth, provides the sense of well being and quality of life. Great smiles enhances your attractiveness, glamour, popularity, confidence, self-esteem, sex-appeal, social life and success. Celebrities depend heavily on their perfect smiles. A SMILE OPENS DOORS.

At a very special lecture some years ago, the concept of "thin places" was introduced to me. Thin poems describe people, places or experiences where boundaries between the spirit world and the secular or material world are more transparent. This transparency, or "thinness", enables a greater perception of spiritual matters, an encounter with God, a more spiritual approach to life. Thin places is a term that was given to sacred space, originally associated with Celtic Christians in the late Fifth Century. This book is organized into two thematic areas: Thin Places and Thin Experiences. Thin places can be found through travel, work, neighborhoods, nature and families. Thin experiences can be found through health, dreams, memories, spirituality and people. The title of the book comes from a self-label that evolved during a journey with cancer. The Author identifies himself with being a gentle warrior, one who strives for peace, harmony and balance. He hopes that readers will find these poems inspiring, comforting and useful.

In December 2004, the doctor told me that my tumour was an invasive ductal carcinoma that needed to be removed through a lumpectomy and radiotherapy or a mastectomy procedure. I could choose. After my mastectomy, my oncologist prescribed an aggressive chemotherapy treatment to increase the odds that this aggressive ductal carcinoma cancer would not return. His decision was founded on probability, based on statistics that indicated cancer could possibly return if I didn't do anything differently. My oncologist told me that administering prescribed chemotherapy treatment would increase my survival rate from 50 percent to 60 percent if chemotherapy were to be administered within six weeks of my mastectomy. Chemotherapy treatment filled me with fear. I chose to learn. From my greatest fear came my greatest discovery and my greatest success. I have learned that I have the resources within me to choose the quality of my life along the way. I have learned to hunt those embedded limiting beliefs that have moulded me. I have learned that I can choose to change my beliefs, to change my attitude, to choose my state, to change the stresses in my life. I have learned that I can choose to change my mind to change the energy in my body to feel better and better every day. I choose. I have been clear of cancer for eight years. As a recently qualified life coach practitioner and an NLP practitioner, I am still learning. I practice what I learn through guiding others to realise their potential. My goal is to propel them forward, guiding them to use their imagination, to go back along their timeline and discover their defining moments. I urge them to uncover their embedded beliefs and know that they can change those beliefs anytime. Thus, they can change their bodies through changing their minds.