6 unique signs that can indicate you might not be drinking enough water than you thought you did-<ol><li>Bad breath</li><li>Dry or Flushed skin</li><li>Muscle cramps</li><li>Food cravings especially for sweet things </li><li>Headaches </li><li>Mood changes</li></ol>

Are You Sure You’re Drinking Enough Water ?

This is a test that you can do it on yourself to check for dehydration.Skin turgor refers to the elasticity of your skin. When you pinch the skin on your arm, it should spring back into place within a second or two. Having poor skin turgor means it takes longer for your skin to return to its usual position and hence indicates dehydration.

Skin Turgor Test

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Health

Dr. Meghna Gohain on Sep 16

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans “

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Personal Development

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Motivation & Inspiration

Dr. Meghna Gohain on Sep 12

<ol><li>What causes teeth staining? food, drinks, smoking, and even simply aging.</li><li>How can I prevent teeth staining? Avoid certain foods and beverages that stain your teeth, <a href="https://www.perfectteeth.com/blog/dentist-want-quit-smoking/">quit smoking </a>, and keep up with <a href="https://www.perfectteeth.com/blog/youll-love-these-benefits-of-good-oral-hygiene/">good oral care </a>routines (brushing twice daily, rinsing with mouthwash and flossing daily, chewing sugar-free gum between meals, and seeing your dentist at least twice a year)</li><li>What foods stain your teeth? Foods that are bright or bold in color are the most likely to stain your teeth. Red pasta sauces, berries such as blueberries and raspberries, and bright curries all can contribute to teeth staining.</li></ol>

FAQs On Teeth Staining 

<ol><li>What causes teeth staining? food, drinks, smoking, and even simply aging.</li><li>How can I prevent teeth staining? Avoid certain foods and beverages that stain your teeth, <a href="https://www.perfectteeth.com/blog/dentist-want-quit-smoking/">quit smoking </a>, and keep up with <a href="https://www.perfectteeth.com/blog/youll-love-these-benefits-of-good-oral-hygiene/">good oral care </a>routines (brushing twice daily, rinsing with mouthwash and flossing daily, chewing sugar-free gum between meals, and seeing your dentist at least once a year).</li></ol>

3.What foods stain your teeth? Foods that are bright or bold in color are the most likely to stain your teeth. Red pasta sauces, berries such as blueberries and raspberries, and bright curries all can contribute to teeth staining.4.What drinks cause teeth staining? Like foods, drinks with bold colors are most likely to cause teeth staining e.g red wines, coffee and tea, and even dark sodas. Daily consumption can darken your smile.5.Does green tea stain your teeth? Tea’s of all colors erode enamel and have been shown to stain teeth- even white and green teas.

6.Do braces stain your teeth? Sometimes mild stains are visible once <a href="https://www.perfectteeth.com/blog/straight-teeth-its-not-just-about-a-pretty-smile-the-medical-benefits-of-braces/">braces </a>are removed, but it’s not the braces, it’s the way the teeth were taken care of while the braces were on. Follow your dentist’s suggestion on maintaining oral hygiene, and avoid using whitening products while wearing braces so you don’t over whiten the area of your teeth surrounding the brackets.7.Does charcoal help with teeth staining? Honest <a href="https://www.perfectteeth.com/blog/charcoal-toothpaste-dentists-perspective/">take on charcoal toothpaste? </a>Not worth the negative side effects, and no proven results that it works.

8.How do I know if I need teeth whitening? If you feel your teeth could be more white, talk to your dentist about whether or not they recommend the treatment. 9.Is teeth whitening permanent? No, teeth whitening processes are not permanent. You may need additional future treatments, or can choose to limit the cause of your stains to prolong the whitening effects and prevent stains.10.Are there any side effects to teeth whitening? Some patients may experience teeth sensitivity. Over or misuse of whitening products can damage enamel and cause permanent discoloration.

It is not logical to avoid certain food and drinks like tea , coffee on the basis that it can cause teeth staining . We just need to reduce frequent intake and maintain a consistent oral hygiene practice. I would advice oral Check up and Teeth cleaning/ scaling once in every year. For teeth whitening, recommendation from a professional dentist is advised after check up.

My Personal Take 

What causes teeth staining and how to prevent it? Our professional dental team is here to answer frequently asked questions, and more, about teeth staining.

Teeth Staining | All Of Your Questions Answered | Perfect Teeth

In this movie, Matt Damon plays a role of a 20-year old man gifted with high potential in Mathematics and Chemistry. However, he does not realize what his potential can offer. This movie will inspire you to <a href="https://www.techsling.com/2018/06/how-to-educate-yourself-and-unleash-your-creativity/">unleash your hidden talent </a>by trying to think differently. It is also going to help you become competent.

1. Good Will Hunting

Sometimes, you may feel like you’ve reached a dead end and you are on the verge of giving up in life. In pursuit of happiness will turn things around and give you the stamina you need to go on. Chris Gardner goes from being a homeless salesman to the <a href="https://www.techsling.com/2018/06/how-to-build-and-promote-your-new-startup-brand/">owner of a brokerage house </a>with sheer determination and willpower. It shows you just how you should never allow yourself to be a victim of circumstances.

2. In Pursuit Of Happiness

Michael Oher is adopted by a loving and supportive family who give him all the opportunities he has ever dreamed of. With their help, Michael discovers his strengths and becomes a successful footballer. Maybe you’ve never had a reason to show kindness to those in need, perhaps this movie will inspire you to do so.

3. The Blind Side

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where nobody believes in you, not even your parents? Daniel Ruettiger, a no-hoper has a dream of playing football at the University of Notre Dame but is being discouraged by the people around him. They tell him that he doesn’t have the physical and mental requirements but he doesn’t believe so. After years of hardships and struggles, he finally achieves his dream.

4. Rudy

This is just a perfect movie for those students who are finding it hard studying in their early life. It is a story of a young teacher who inspires her students to work hard despite the hardships, some struggling to get finance and even marriage problems.

6. Freedom Writers 

They say that opportunity comes once, and most of the time when we miss certain opportunities in life we feel like that’s the end. Carl Allen lives an unfulfilled life until he attends the “yes” seminar and decides to give life a whole new shift.

7. Yes Man

Most students find themselves in the wrong profession due to parental pressure. 3 idiots is a real-life relatable movie of some students who found themselves doing engineering because of the wrong motivations while one goes against all odds pursuing knowledge and excellence.

8. 3 Idiots

Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher decides to adopt <a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/21824/5-alternative-teaching-methods">unconventional teaching methods </a>in a bid to help lift his no-hoper students. This is a perfect movie for those students who think that they are hopeless in their studies.

9. Stand And Deliver 

This movie is for students who have potential but just need some motivation from their teacher to uplift their spirit. A story of Melvin Tolson, a professor who inspired his students to challenge Harvard University at the debating championship.Debaters should be perfect in languages and they can get assistance from any <a href="https://edubirdies.org/essay-writer/">site </a>with experienced professionals.

11. The Great Debaters 

This is the journey of Zuckerberg, how he evolved from being a student at the Harvard University to being a billionaire. An inspiring story for students trying to transform their dreams into reality.

12. Social Network

One of my personal favourite. A biopic on Homer Hickman, a coal miner’s son. He gets inspired to build rockets when he hears about the first artificial satellite Sputnik being launched into space, even though he faces resistance from his father.

October Sky

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15 Movies that Will Make You Want to Study

Some people listen with the intent to understand while some listen with the intent to reply .

So what Type Of Listener Are You ?

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Dr. Meghna Gohain on Sep 07

As early as 5,000 B.C., ancient Sumerians first referred to tooth decay in written text as "tooth worms”An Egyptian, named Hesy-Re, is thought to be the first noted dentist.Maybe you've wondered how humans in ancient times maintained oral hygiene — Infact, our ancestors actually had remarkably few cavities, thanks in part to their diet and consumption of weeds with antibacterial properties.

Tooth Decay In The Ancient World 

<ul><li>The Chinese were the first to use fillings made of amalgam (as early as 700 AD)</li><li>However, it was in medieval Europe where texts on performing and regulating dental surgery were first identified</li><li>By 1210 in France, dental surgeries, including tooth extractions, were routine. </li><li>In the 16th century, these procedures appeared in published books dedicated to dentistry, which described tooth extraction, jaw anatomy and tooth decay in depth, among other dental matters &amp; experimenting with anesthesia.</li></ul>

Medieval Dental Practices

<ul><li>Root canals, dentures and crowns were part of dental services by the mid-1700s. </li><li>cosmetic rehabilitation and gold crowns in shape of natural tooth were becoming a popular demand .</li><li>Dentures and tooth implants made of several materials also made its mark . </li></ul>

New Tools In The Age Of Enlightenment 

<ul><li>By mid 1800s, Tube toothpaste as we know it today became a mainstream staple of oral hygiene. </li><li>One of the most important diagnostic tools in dentistry, the X-ray, was also discovered around this time.</li><li>Social and cultural barriers to the dental profession were broken in the 19th century.</li><li>Dr. Lucy Beaman Hobbs became the first woman to graduate an American dental school in 1866, and Dr. Robert Tanner Freeman forged the way as the first African-American man to earn a dental degree in 1869.</li></ul>

Foundation Of Modern Dentistry

A look at the history of dentistry will help you understand where the conveniences of modern dentistry came from and how they led to today's practices.

The History Of Dentistry

Life will break you.Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either; for solitude will break you with it’s yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes nearLet yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness .Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could .

Thought Provoking Muse By Louise Erdich 

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Most of the smiles comes from a positive reaction — contentment, approval, a "well done" from your peers.<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617706082">Researchers </a>describe these as “reward” smiles because we use them to motivate ourselves or other people.

1. Reward smiles

People <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/successful-smiles-and-when-to-use-them">smile</a> to reassure others, to be polite, and to communicate trustworthiness, belonging, and good intentions.Smiles like these have been termed as “affiliation” smiles since they function as social connectors.A gentle smile is often perceived as a sign of <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6343863/">compassion </a>Mechanism:These smiles involve the upward pull of the lips, and according to researchers, often trigger <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/cheek-dimples">dimpling in the cheeks </a>.

2. Affiliative smiles

People can use smile to show their superiority, to communicate discontent, and to make others feel inferior. One can call it a sneer.Mechanism: A dominance smile is more likely to be asymmetrical - One side of the mouth rises, and the other side remains in place or pulls downward.It may also include a lip curl and raising of an eyebrow t, both of which are definite signals of disgust and aggresion.Studies show dominance smile works.

3. Dominance smiles

If you’re trying to find a reliable lie detector, the face isn’t !According to <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327957pspr1003_2">research </a>, even the most experienced law enforcement officials only spot <a href="https://www.healthline.com/symptom/lying">liars </a>about half the time.Such smile patterns are commonly seen among people who were actively trying to deceive others in high-stakes situations.Mechanism: The zygomaticus major muscle — the one that pulls your lips into a smile — becomes very active

4. Lying smile

The sheer dexterity of human emotion is astonishing. So, we’re able to smile in the midst of both emotional and physical pain.It acts as a coping mechanism to smile and laugh during the grieving process (emotional/physical pain)<a href="https://www.hindawi.com/journals/prt/2013/128093/">Researchers </a>monitored the facial expressions of people who were undergoing painful procedures and found that they smiled more when loved ones were present than when they were alone as a sign of reassurance.

5. Wistful smile

The list of social situations requiring a pleasant expression is long, one of them is when you greet a person.Lots of social situations calls for trustworthy friendliness but not emotional intimacy .Mechanism: Most of the time, a polite smile involves the zygomaticus major muscle, but not the orbicularis oculi muscle. In other words, your mouth smiles, but your eyes don’t.

6. Polite smile

This might sometimes be difficult to show or understand.One <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699931.2013.817383">study </a>found that attractiveness is heavily influenced by intense smile that can “compensate for relative unattractiveness.”Tips: Some tips are subtle: Keep your lips together and lift an eyebrow . Some are coy: Smile while tipping your head down slightly . Some are downright comical: Smile with a little whipped cream or coffee froth on your lips.

7. Flirtatious smile

This can be seen in situations of commiting blunders in front of group of people. However, smiling can actually alleviate some awkward scenarios.Mechanism: A study found that a smile provoked by embarrassment is often accompanied by a downward tilt of the head and a shifting of the gaze to the left.If you’re embarrassed, you’ll probably touch your face more often, too.

8. Embarrassed smile 

This smile gets its name from the Pan Am flight attendants who were required to keep smiling, even when customers and circumstances made them want to throw peanut packets across the cabin.It can be seen as forced and fake.Mechanism: they use extra effort to yank on their zygomaticus major muscle.As a result, the corners of the mouth are extra high, and more of the teeth are exposed.

9. Pan Am smile

This smile is the gold standard of all smiles.The <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/duchenne-smile">Duchenne smile </a> AKA genuine smile make you seem <a href="https://ambadylab.stanford.edu/pubs/2010-Ozono%20et%20al.pdf">trustworthy </a>, authentic, and friendly.Mechanism :It’s the one that involves the mouth, the cheeks, and the eyes simultaneously. It’s the one where your whole face seems to light up suddenly.

10. Duchenne smile

Nothing transcends the language barrier like a smile

Researchers have identified 10 main types of smiles. Here’s an explanation of these smiles, what they mean, and how they may affect the people you encounter.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

10 Main Types of Smiles and What They Really Mean

You might be experiencing depersonalization, or the “persistent feeling of being detached from one’s self” People with known depersonalization (H/O trauma/substance abuse) have described feeling a strange sort of emotional numbness and emptiness, like they were “watching their life from outside of themselves” or “going through the motions of every day as if on autopilot.” They don’t feel like themselves anymore, donot get engaged by anything, and constantly struggle with an overwhelming sense of helplessness and inability to take back control of their lives.

1. You feel disconnected from everything

If you were simply a lazy person, then it would stand to reason that you’ve always been a lazy person, maybe with a few rare exceptions. But if you used to be self-motivated and high achieving, often excelling in certain areas, and have only recently become exhausted, apathetic, and unmotivated, then it’s more likely that you’re suffering from burnout and not laziness like most people would think.

2. You used to be motivated

Earlier, you used to have things you were passionate about but now, may be struggling to find interest or enjoyment in it anymore. Whether it’s creativity, writing, sport, or just your academic/professional performance in general, burnout can make it seem hard for you to do the things you once loved or felt passionate about. You might even come to hate or resent it because of how much you overworked yourself and pushed yourself to the brink because of it.

3. You used to be passionate

Do you find yourself snappy and easily irritated suddenly? Do you often feel emotionally out of control nowadays but can't explain why? Well, moodiness and irritability are common but often overlooked signs of burnout. Lazy people, on the other hand, are a stark contrast to this, because they are often very relaxed, laidback, placid, and unaffected by things.

4. You've become moody and irritable

One of the most distressing warning signs that someone may be emotionally and physically burnt out is if they start neglecting their self-care and socially withdrawing from others which wasn't the case before. There can be changes in the eating and/or sleeping patterns & stopping any effort to groom themselves or look good.This is because you feel so easily exhausted by even the simplest of tasks

5. You've neglected your self care

Burnouts develop in stages. So all of the points mentioned before – won’t just happen overnight. Studies show that there are actually five major stages of burnout, each with increasing degrees of severity: the honeymoon phase,the onset of stress, chronic stress, burnout,and habitual burnout.By the time you reach the fifth and final stage, burnout has already become so embedded in your life that the experience of mental and physical fatigue become more persistent and harder to treat.

6. These changes have happened gradually

The earlier you spot the signs of burnout, the easier it will be for you to get help and recover from it. That’s why it’s so important to raise awareness about burnout instead of simply dismissing it as “laziness” like most people tend to do. So if you or anyone you know may be suffering from mental or emotional burnout, reach out to a healthcare professional and talk to them about it.

Spot the signs and seek help

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Mental Health

6 Signs You’re Burnt Out, Not Lazy – Psych2Go

The space between two front teeth in upper jaw is termed as midline diastema. Diastema means 'interval' in Greek.When the space (or gap) becomes greater than 0.5mm between the middle-front two teeth in the upper jaw- it is called midline diastema.&nbsp;One may be self-conscious about having a space between their teeth. However, a diastema also can affect speech especially “s” and “th’.In France, the teeth present on both sides of spacing are called as Dents Du Bonheur or ”Lucky teeth”!

Do your have gap in between your teeth ? Here's why

<ol><li>Genetic and familial history</li><li>During teeth development</li><li>&nbsp;Abnormal frenum:&nbsp;High attachment of labial frenum (fold of the mucous membrane connecting the lip to upper jaw).</li><li>Tooth – arch length discrepancy:&nbsp;with missing teeth, small size teeth, peg shaped lateral incisors,large jaw size</li><li>Habits: Habits such as <a href="http://www.omilights.com/thumbsucking-in-kids-causes-impact-and-treatment/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thumb sucking </a>or tongue thrusting can cause proclination of teeth resulting in spacing</li><li>&nbsp;Midline pathology: cysts, <a href="http://www.omilights.com/oral-cancer-early-signs-and-risk-factors/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tumors </a>and odontomes</li><li>&nbsp;Treamemt related</li><li>&nbsp;Imperfect fusion of bones at the midline</li></ol>

Most common causes of diastema:

<ol><li>If your lateral incisors are too small, your dentist may suggest crowns and veneers</li><li>If you have missing teeth, you might need dental implants, a bridge or a partial denture.</li><li>If the gap is due to gum disease, then periodontal treatment is necessary</li><li>Pathological causes like extra teeth, midline soft tissue anomalies can be removed surgically and spaces are closed orthodontically.</li><li>Oral habits such as <a href="http://www.omilights.com/thumbsucking-in-kids-causes-impact-and-treatment/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">thumb sucking </a>and tongue thrusting should be corrected before closure of the space.</li></ol>

Few treatments you can consider

Unless it needs some medical attention, having gap teeth are rather harmless.In Nigeria, gaps between teeth is considered an exceptionally attractive physical trait. Diastema are prominently displayed in many renowned personalities from different walks of life like David Letterman, Elton John, Eddie Murphy, Madonna, Lauren Hutton, Michael Strahan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Condoleezza Rice, to name a few!Next time just flash that wide smile to the camera no matter what instead of hiding it😁

Embrace your gapped teeth!

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