CHICAGO, June 26, 2023 – A new American Dental Association (ADA) clinical practice guideline suggests conservative methods to treat tooth decay in primary and permanent teeth could lead to better ...

Tooth decay can appear differently depending on the stage of severity. You may experience more symptoms, including pain and swollen lymph nodes, at later stages. Tooth decay is damage that occurs to ...

A new American Dental Association (ADA) clinical practice guideline suggests conservative methods to treat tooth decay in primary and permanent teeth could lead to better outcomes when used with ...

Anthea Rhodes is the founding director of the Royal Children's Hospital National Child Health Poll. This project receives funding from the Royal Children's Hospital Foundation. Mihiri J Silva receives ...

COUNTING teeth is something you might have done as a child when your adult ones were growing in. But scientists say the ...

George et al 1 have examined the association between the Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth (DMFT) index—a widely used metric for assessing overall dental health—and the risk of buccal mucosa cancer (BMC) ...

The human body is a marvellous thing. But like anything built by evolution, it has plenty of flaws. Consider teeth. Whereas sharks grow new teeth throughout their lives, adult humans get one set, ...

Jeffrey Ebersole receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. To “cry poor mouth” is an expression used to habitually complain about a lack of money. A literal poor mouth, however, ...

People love a conspiracy theory, and the field of dentistry isn’t immune to shifty speculations. One notion currently tumbling around the socials is the idea that all decayed teeth can be healed ...

Almost everyone experiences tooth decay (caries), it seems, making this among the most common conditions caused by bacterial infection. The costs of treating this condition are among the highest for ...