ROCHESTER, Minn., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Often infected teeth are pulled before a patient has heart surgery to reduce the risk of infection, but U.S. researchers say this may be a catch-22. Senior author Dr ...

Sasha Ross, DMD, MS, is a board-certified periodontist who has been with the Cleveland Clinic since 2013. She earned her dental degree from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and completed her ...

A 54-year-old woman lost vision in one eye after developing orbital cellulitis following a tooth extraction, according to a recent case report published in Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

A healthy 45-year-old man experienced respiratory failure due to a giant life-threatening lung abscess caused by oral bacteria stemming from a wisdom tooth extraction. The case report was published in ...

A woman has told how a routine trip to the dentist triggered a nightmare chain of events that ended with her in a coma. Demisha Jennings, 32, visited the dentist to get a tooth pulled several years ...

Submasseteric abscess is an unusual complication of dental extraction. 1 The clinical signs of cheek tenderness and marked trismus are non-specific and can make the diagnosis difficult. The ...

Bella Hadid has shared a health update after revealing that a tooth infection caused a flare up of her Lyme disease. The 26-year-old model recently gave insight into her ongoing struggle with Lyme ...

Patients line up outside the Remote Area Medical Clinic at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth on Saturday. The clinic was available to anyone who wished to use its services.