Published on March 1, 2025, 3:32 a.m.

We’ve been fighting plaque with brute force for centuries. It’s time we started using smarter physics. *** Your mouth is …

Published on Aug. 13, 2023, 3:59 p.m.

There are more microbes in your mouth right now than there are people on Earth. Let that sink in for a moment. But don’t pictur…

Published on March 1, 2025, 4:17 a.m.

You brush. You might even floss. You follow the rules taught since childhood, yet you still sometimes see that discouraging tin…

Published on Nov. 1, 2024, 2:43 p.m.

If you’ve ever run your tongue over your teeth and felt a fuzzy, slippery coating, you’ve encountered one of the most sophistic…

Published on Nov. 2, 2024, 9:39 a.m.

You know the feeling. You walk out of the dentist’s office, your teeth feeling impossibly smooth, polished to a perfect gleam. …

Published on March 1, 2025, 4:23 a.m.

Every morning, millions of us perform a ritual. We wield a brush and paste, scrubbing away the night. We feel the smooth, clean…

Published on Nov. 2, 2024, 7:36 a.m.

There’s a war being waged inside your mouth. It’s a silent, daily struggle, and the enemy is far more sophisticated than you mi…

Published on Nov. 1, 2024, 3:53 p.m.

It’s a ritual as common as sunrise. You stand at the sink, sleepy-eyed, and guide a brush through the familiar landscape of you…

Published on Nov. 1, 2024, 1:06 p.m.

There are more microbes living in your mouth right now than there are humans on Earth. This isn't a line from a science fiction…

Published on Aug. 14, 2023, 2:07 p.m.

That furry, filmy coating on your teeth when you first wake up—that familiar “tooth sweater”—isn’t just last night’s dinner. It…