MYTH 6: WORMS CAUSE CAVITIES IN TEETH No worm can stay alive inside a mouth, let alone cause cavities! This myth is propagated by quacks posing as dentists (there are plenty of them!). When uninformed patients (I would not say ‘illiterate patients’ because many educated people also go to quacks for a variety of reasons, the prime one being that the ‘treatment’ provided is usually inexpensi..

M Y T H 4: Y O U N E E D T O C O N S U L T A D E N T I S T O N L Y W H E N Y O U R T E E T H P A I N The best insurance against painful teeth or losing a tooth is regular dental check up once every six months. The reason is not difficult to understand. Any problem is tackled best when it is identified in its earliest stage. The simpler the problem, easier it is to solve...

As dentists we all have come across patients who are misinformed, poorly informed or those with half baked ideas regarding treatments. How often have we heard patients saying, "I don't want to get my tooth removed because I'll lose my eye sight"? Or something like "She got cavities in teeth because she ate rice when she was pregnant/after delivery". I think there are various such myths and probabl..