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

The secret to preventing tooth decay may have been hiding in your mouth all along. Increasing levels of an amino acid in ...

A new clinical study involving human participants shows that arginine, a naturally occurring amino acid, can change how dental plaque develops on teeth, helping to reduce the risk of tooth decay. When ...

Sugar-loving mouth bacteria create acids that damage teeth, but arginine can help fight back. In a clinical trial, ...

New human clinical trial proves arginine, an amino acid, can modify plaque formation on teeth, thereby protecting ...

In Japan’s aging population, dental visits are taking on a new role. Beyond cavities or dentures, the condition of a person’s ...

For decades, fluoride has been at the center of public health debates, hailed by experts as a crucial tool in preventing tooth decay while also facing scrutiny from skeptics who question its safety.

The discovery that fluoride can help people maintain healthy teeth dates back to Colorado Springs in the early 1900s. That’s when a young dentist named Frederick McKay noticed brown staining on the ...

When the calendar flips to a new year, many of us aim to use this blank slate as the time to (finally) lose weight, drink ...

Warren Loeppky has been a pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary for 20 years. Over the last decade, he says, tooth decay in children he’s seen has become more common, more aggressive and ...