Allison M. Stump, DMD

12/23/2024

11/13/2024

🦷🦈🦷 Toothday Tuesday 🦷🦈🦷

It’s Toothday Tuesday on a Wednesday!! This week I’m in north Florida with friends and I normally don’t do a post while on vacation but last light we walked the beach looking for sharks teeth and I was inspired!! This week is fun facts about sharks teeth!!

Unlike us humans, sharks usually have 5 rows of teeth. When a shark’s tooth is lost, the tooth in the row behind moves forward to take its place! Some species of sharks can produce up to 30,000 teeth in their life. That’s a lot of visits from the tooth fairy!! The shape of the tooth reflects the diet for that species of shark.

For more info on sharks teeth compared to human teeth visit https://www.deltadentalwa.com/blog/entry/2017/07/shark-week-all-about-shark-teeth

11/11/2024

❤️🤍💙 Happy Veterans Day to all of our veterans!! Thank you all for your service to defend our freedoms and our great country!! ❤️🤍💙

Both of my grandfathers served in World War II. My Pawpaw (Ruben Kitchen, Sr.) served in the Navy on the USS Yorktown, CV-10 in the Pacific theater. My Papaw (Donald Stump) served in the Army in the Atlantic theater. He was shot in the arm and was awarded the Purple Heart.

10/29/2024

🦷🦷🦷 Toothday Tuesday 🦷🦷🦷

Happy Toothday Tuesday!! With trunk-or-treats in full swing and community trick-or-treats approaching, let’s talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to candy!

What’s your favorite candy?? Share below👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Here is a few common types of candy.

Chocolate
Chocolate isn’t really sticky and it washes off your teeth pretty easily. ***Bonus points for dark chocolate: contains less sugar than milk chocolate

Sticky/Gummy Candy
The consistency of sticky/gummy candy leads them to stay longer on your teeth and harder to wash off naturally. The longer the treat stays on your teeth, the more time the cavity producing bacteria is working at demineralizing your teeth.
***Exception: sugar free gum.

Hard Candy
Hard candy usually takes a while to dissolve if you are just sucking on it. This means the sugary saliva mix is constantly washing over your teeth and keeping the pH of your mouth low which starts the demineralization process. On the flip side, if you are eating the candy quicker, you are most likely biting/chewing the candy. This can lead to the candy spending less time in the mouth, but increases the risk of breaking a tooth.

Sour Candy
Sour candy usually has citric acid to give it the sour flavor. Citric acid is very harmful to our teeth. more acidic than sweet candy.

When you combine these candy categories into one specific candy, like Sour Patch Kids, you could have a real problem on your hands.

10/11/2024

Tonight’s Northern Lights from Hardin Valley, Knox County, Tennessee!!!!

I was unable to see them the last time they made their way down south.

Share your Northern Lights pictures 👇🏻below 👇🏻in the comments!! Don’t forget to include your 📍location📍

10/03/2024

Let’s help our neighbors in East Tennessee and West North Carolina!!! I’ve ordered mine and can’t wait for it to come in!

Go get your shirts from The Kentucky Shop (https://thekyshop.com/collections/appalachia-strong) to help the recovery efforts in East Tennessee and West North Carolina!!

100% of the net profits will be divided equally between the two states!!

Thank y'all for gettin' behind this for our friends in Appalachia! If ya'd like one they are over at TheKyShop.com! Now off to print some tees!