Oral health • Natural medicine • The future of the practice The dentist’s chair is the most reliably terrifying seat in civilian life. There is a particular kind of dread that belongs exclusively to the dental waiting room. The laminated leaflets. The faint chemical reek of someone else’s anxiety. The receptionist who smiles at you […]
There are truths so obvious that only modernity can mislay them. One is that light matters. Not metaphorical light, not the sort lifestyle coaches prattle about, but actual sunlight: the old, vulgar, democratic blaze that rises every morning and asks nothing of us except that we step outside. Richard J. Wurtman, a nutritionist at the […]
Dentistry is one of civilisation’s quieter absurdities: a profession devoted entirely to persuading otherwise rational adults to recline backwards under a blinding lamp while a stranger rummages about inside their skull with a collection of instruments that would not look out of place in a medieval locksmith’s toolkit. The whole arrangement is so faintly sinister […]
