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The Shanghai Zoo has made a special four foot long toothbrush to clean the teeth of their zoo hippos.

While wild hippos do not need their teeth cleaned because their diet comprises primarily of grass, at the zoo they are fed many different fruits and vegetables, which tend to get stuck inside their teeth and hence require regular cleaning.

The zoo had been using a broom to clean out the …

Nitrous oxide was discovered in 1772, but its use was limited to recreational use, with the purpose to cause euphoria and slight hallucinations, in British upper class in 1799, known as “laughing gas parties”. People found that inhaling a little of the gas would make you laugh (hence the name) and that inhaling a little more would knock you unconscious.

It was not until 1844 when a dentist in …

Last week the National Public Radio program “All Things Considered” had a conversation with Duke University psychology professor, Robert Ariely, who claimed that dentists misread radiographs half the time and that they frequently place restorations in healthy teeth based on these misreadings and their desire to make money. (read or hear the story).

I thought some parts of the story were interesting, but the president of the ADA, …

The idea for a blog about dentistry was not really my life’s ambition. This blog was started more as support for DentistFinderSanDiego.com. It turns out that I work a lot more on this blog than I do on the main site. Finding interesting stories about dentistry can be time consuming, but is also fun and somewhat educational for me. Most of these stories have been “what not to do” (dental …