It was just a few weeks after the pandemic started that Tammy Chen knew something was happening

to her patient's mouths.

The first week of April, so we had been shut down for about two and a half weeks, I got

12 emergency calls, 10 of which were teeth fractures.

Tammy is a prostodontist in New York City.

She's been doing dental work like restoring broken and missing teeth since 2011, but she'd

never seen anything like this.

In New York, we would say on average it was about once a week that we were getting

a tooth fracture.

And now it's at least once a day.

Sometimes I would see five to six fractures in a day.

You know, as a dental healthcare provider, that's scary to see.

It was scary because Tammy knew that if she was seeing this sort of huge uptick at her

own practice, other dentists probably were as well.

My Rukinaw specialists say that they are just busier than they have ever been.

I've gotten correspondence from Australia, Germany, France, of similar situations in their

countries as well.

So Tammy started to wonder what was really at the root of all these cracked teeth.

She knew that many of her patients were now working from home, sitting on the couch or

the kitchen bar for extended periods of time.

And she believed these makeshift workstations were likely leading to an unusual amount of

time in positions that strained the neck or put extra weight on their jaws.

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