Dental Care

dental care 10/29/2025

An Orthodontist on Everything You Need While You’re Straightening Your Teeth Turns out the best way to keep your aligners squeaky-clean is also the cheapest.

By Arielle Avila and Crystal Martin

health 2/23/2024

What Is Mask Filtration Efficiency? N95, KN95, and KF94 masks are rated according to how much nasty stuff they can block.

By Liza Corsillo

dental care 1/24/2024

Do At-Home LED Teeth Whiteners Actually Work? “You might as well be putting your phone flashlight up to your teeth.”

By Arielle Avila

dental care 3/13/2023

Here’s Why I Chomp (and Swallow) Desk Gum All Day Chewing gum in the modern world is profoundly inelegant. Desk gum is not.

By Zach Schiffman

dental care 2/3/2023

I Can’t Stop Buying International Toothpastes (That Aren’t Marvis) From gorgeously packaged European heritage brands to fruit-flavored tubes from Japan, there’s much more out there than just mint.

By Caroline Weaver

saw something said something 5/11/2022

The Throat Lozenges That Saved Bernie Sanders’s Campaign-Ravaged Voice In 2019, the senator’s “croaky” voice made national news. The Swiss candies that rescued him did not.

dental care 4/26/2022

This Cocoa-Flavored Toothpaste Jump-started My Toddler’s Brushing Habit And admittedly tastes good to me.

By Chantel Tattoli

dental care 3/24/2022

I Tried Quip’s Refillable (and Vaguely Tech-y) Floss The brand claims it’s “The first floss you’ll want to use.”

saw something said something 11/15/2021

Lizzo’s Toothpaste Is More Expensive Than Her Electric Toothbrush It was a gift from RuPaul.

By Jenna Milliner-Waddell

wellness 7/1/2021

The Surprisingly Delightful Things I Bought With FSA Money “I recently left my full-time job and was told on my last day that I had one week until the funds became inaccessible.”