Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Keep your medusa piercing clean using sterile saline solution and alcohol-free mouth rinse. To reduce pain and swelling, use over-the-counter anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or naproxen sodium.

Claire Gillespie is an experienced health and wellness writer. Her work appears across several publications including SELF, Women’s Health, Health, Vice, Headspace, and The Washington Post. Susan Bard ...

You brush your teeth, floss regularly and faithfully wear your retainer every night. But despite your diligent oral health habits, your retainer or mouth guard can get yellowed, cloudy or stained.

Orthodontic treatment to straighten and align teeth has been around for a long time, but the results have never lasted permanently. Orthodontists worked to create a retention solution to make results ...

Manchester VA Medical Center, Manchester, NH, USA. The current Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) in a small same-day surgery center did not include information regarding the removal of jewelry prior ...

Happy patients, happy clinicians: Shae Chauhan explains how to choose a durable retainer material and why this is so important. When it comes to retainers, everyone wants the same outcome: patient ...

Generally, standard piercings like earrings won't set off the security scans. Even if they do, they're pretty simple to remove. However, certain metal body piercings may trigger the machines, ...

No show your piercings: Suit for belly button rings, tongue nipple rings, nose piercing studs, labret stud, lip rings, tragus cartilage helix conch earring studs, eyebrow piercings etc.

Hypertrophic piercing bumps and keloid scars can look similar. However, there are various ways to differentiate them. Skin changes can occur at the site of piercings. Knowing how to tell the ...