"Look well to the spine, for therein lies the cause of many diseases." — Hippocrates The Most Overlooked Joint in the Body There is a joint in your body that works every single time you speak, chew, swallow, yawn, laugh, or express any emotion at all. It moves more times per day than almost any other joint in the human body. It is the only movable joint in the entire skull. And yet, when it begins to fail — quietly, gradually, with symptoms that seem to have nothing to do wit
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." — Mark Twain The Word "Quack" Has a Dental Origin Story Here is a fact that tends to stop people mid-sentence. The word quack — as in an untrustworthy or dangerous practitioner — does not come from ducks. It comes from mercury. In 19th century Germany, mercury was commonly known as Quecksilber, meaning quicksilver. Dentists who used mercury amalgam fillings were disparag
"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." — Hippocrates A Clinic in New Delhi Changed Everything I was fourteen years old when I first understood what dentistry could do. My family visits India every year — my grandparents live there, and those trips have always felt like a return to something essential. On one of those visits, I volunteered at a clinic for the underprivileged in New Delhi, rotating throug
