A lot people are in denial about it. They look at it as a real negative. It's a coping mechanism and not a positive one.

I could probably find evidence of grinding or clenching on almost everybody who comes in.

It's a nice study and I'm probably going to end up saying if you want to chew gum, chew gum. I don't think gum is the magic bullet, but it can't hurt.

A lot of the (mouth) guards we make help certain types of sleep apnea.

The theory behind the paper is that actual chewing stimulates a neuronal and hormonal reflex that helps to awaken the gut. Certainly, there's a great deal of appeal to that theory.

Employers seek financial return from their offerings of clinical preventive services to employees, but they are least likely to offer the services most likely to provide this return.

We as stroke experts have to ask, what is the devil in front of us? What is the higher risk? Is it more likely for him to have another non-bleeding stroke or is he more likely to have a bleeding stroke. The odds were that he would have another non-bleeding stroke, especially with the hole in the heart.

That basically sets up a chain of events that will allow a blood clot to form near the hole or in it and then be pushed into the brain by the prime minister's own heart beat.

It certainly is very appealing and cheap to do. Although I'm not a huge believer that this is going to change the world, I certainly am going to offer gum to people in my own practice. There's really no downside.

Historically, we have been looking for ways to have people get better sooner from major abdominal surgery, especially intestinal surgery.