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Choosing the correct health care professional for certain things can be daunting. When you’re experiencing a specific pain or issue, do you call your primary care provider first or do you go [...]

Most of us consider ourselves to be multilayered people with different shades of our personalities, likes and dislikes. Typically, this means we present many different fronts of who we are [...]

The spring season ushers in college acceptance letters. Students begin making final decisions on majors. Graduate school deadlines loom near, too. This can be a stressful time for both students [...]

We know that dental anxiety is real. For nearly 10% of adults, going to the dentist it is so fear-inducing that they refuse to go at all. Almost 20% of patients only go to the dentist for urgent [...]

We live in a time of convenience—or, at least, the eternal quest for it by the looks of the ads on TV. We lead busy lives, but today, the ability to have your groceries, laundry, dog walking and [...]

When surveying Dr. Ku’s patients, we can see that we have a significant number of high-achieving, driven people that visit our practice. And while it’s hard to turn visiting the dentist [...]

Imagine that, in the middle of the night, you wake up with a toothache. Instead of toughing it out until the morning (and imagining the worst-case scenarios until then), you go to the bathroom [...]

Think about your last trip to the dentist. If it was a typical cleaning, you probably spent some time with hygienist, then maybe a set of x-rays was taken to examine what’s going on below the [...]

When you look at your weekly shopping list, you probably have those same, staple items every week: milk, bread, cereal…or whatever it is your household eats most. But how often are products like [...]

According to the American Heart Association, the average American adult consumes 22 teaspoons of added sugar per day, which is almost four times the recommendation of 6 teaspoons per day for [...]