Dr. Peter Trimble, DDS

09/07/2025

Don’t forget to schedule your teeth cleaning as part of your back to school routine! A new school year should begin with a bright smile!

07/03/2025

This week we lost Sue, Dr. Peter Trimble’s wife, who was the heart of our dental practice. If you ever called or came into the office, you interacted with her. For over 40 years, we been a family run practice with the husband and wife team.

11/16/2024

Your teeth hold many secrets!

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously thought, according to a new study

11/21/2023

06/01/2023

The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History added a breathtaking ancient artifact to its collection this week after an almost 12-inch tooth belonging to a mastodon – a mammal from the last ice age sim…

04/02/2022

Happy April Fools! 🤣

Even hippos need to pay attention to proper daily dental care!

Coming Summer 2022, an ALL NEW animal experience. We're excited to announce we will be offering hippopotamus teeth cleanings! Choose between melon, bubblegum, or cucumber flavored toothpaste and get to scrubbing those pearly whites. Price will be $15 for members $20 for non-members. Participants will be required to sign a waiver before receiving all dental materials.

If you haven't figured it out yet, this is an April Fool's Joke.

11/24/2020

These toothache drops were offered in 1885, before regulation was introduced in 1920.

From the archives: The turn of the century craze for the narcotic as a painkiller

11/24/2020

1885 Toothache Drops!

From the archives: The turn of the century craze for the narcotic as a painkiller

09/03/2020

Since we’re all stuck at home together, you might as well brush together! 🦷

05/23/2020

Samples of tartar from the teeth of 13 people who were buried in what is now eastern Tokyo in the latter half of the Edo Period (A.D. 1603 to 1867) will allow researchers to determine which foods were used as staples, and even which were an individual’s favorite foods.

archaeology.org/news/8704-200519-japan-edo-foods

(Sawafuji et al. 2020, PLOS ONE)