Uvula Piercing

It happens, but thankfully rare... Ear piercing I will do, but truly uvula piercing is not something I would recommend given a whole host o...

Infographic: HPV from Oral Sex Causes Throat Cancer

I have blogged in the past regarding how HPV transmitted through oral sex (and potentially even French kissing) has now become the number 1 ...

Pencil Drawings of the Aging Ear, Nose, and Mouth

Came across these beautiful pencil drawings of a collection of 60 ears, noses, and mouths arranged chronologically from ages 16 to 90. Drawn...

Coffee Reduces Risk of Death from Oral Cancer

In a prior blog , I mentioned that researchers  found that regular coffee drinkers who drank more than four cups of coffee a day had a 39 pe...

"Mother's Kiss" to Remove Nasal Foreign Bodies

In 1965, a general practitioner Vladimir Ctibor described the "Mother's Kiss" technique of removing nasal foreign bodies in a ...

Wrong Site Surgery Performed by ENT

In 2010, an ENT performed a tongue tie release on a 5 years old child who was supposed to undergo a tongue lesion biopsy (apparently 1cm i...

CPAP + Oral Appliance (All-In-One) Device for OSA

A dentist colleague of mine informed me of a new device that combines CPAP mask with an oral appliance for patients with obstructive sleep a...

Squid Ejaculates Into Woman's Mouth

It happened in June 2012... A South Korean woman was eating a half-cooked squid when the squid apparently ejected its sperm bag into her ton...

"Mouthwatering" Foods May Be a Misnomer?

In the spirit of Thanskgiving where thoughts of food predominate,  British researchers have determined that humans are NOT able to produce ...

Posterior Tongue Tie

An ordinary garden-variety tongue tie  (also known as ankyloglossia) is a rare condition whereby the tongue is anchored to the floor of the ...

Cigarettes Contain Radioactive Polonium

Cigarettes are known to cause cancer... But we now know there's another reason why... they contain radioactive material, specifically po...

Oral Exam Using a Finger

For a good physical exam, physicians use their senses (eyes, ears, nose) to detect disease processes that may not necessarily be obvious to ...

New Webpage on Bumps or Lesions of the Mouth

Our practice has created a new webpage describing the various bumps and lesions commonly seen in the mouth that leads to a doctor's vis...

Robotic Mouth Sings the "Natural" Way

When it comes to robotics, the sounds they make is either due to the machinery that runs them or an electronic recording that comes out of a...

The Doctors TV Show Does the Mouth

The Doctors TV actually got something totally right! Actually there are two segments here... One on the mouth followed by another on what h...