Oral health has an image problem. It’s often dismissed as an afterthought, inconvenience, or cosmetic procedure, a noticeable difference to how we prevent heart disease with wide-scale public ...

Oral frailty can shorten your life expectancy, so those dreaded visits, drills and all, really are for your own good.

Advertisements for special toothpastes, powders and gums suggest that it’s possible. Here’s what dental experts say. By Katie Camero Most of us know that the best defense against tooth decay — or ...

Same word, different mess, different threatsThe word plaque is doing a lot of work on social media, and that’s what makes it ...

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

When it comes to oral health, many people believe that major dental problems happen suddenly. In reality, most issues — ...