Brushing your teeth with toothpaste is such a normal part of daily life that it is hard to imagine how people managed without it. Yet toothpaste, as we know it today, is a fairly recent invention. For ...

A newly developed dental gel may one day allow dentists to rebuild damaged tooth enamel, offering a completely different ...

In a bid to boost your confidence and turn your inner glow to full beam, one writer has assembled a fellowship of experts to ...

From reversing gum disease to transforming oral health, how much of the viral claim stands up to scientific scrutiny?

While teeth play a greater role in health than many realise, current dental solutions for tooth loss are temporary and subpar. What if we could regrow our teeth instead? Some surveys suggest upwards ...

Getting your wisdom teeth pulled has always felt like a quickly forgettable rite of passage. That framing is starting to look outdated. Two recent findings suggest the molars most oral surgeons drop ...

I founded SmileStar in 2010 to provide care to communities in need. We’ve helped more than 100,000 patients since. We get people, who might’ve never seen a dentist, out of pain. We mainly do tooth ...

Dentistry in the Middle Ages was a mix of surprising knowledge and brutal practices. While many people had relatively healthy teeth due to low sugar diets, treatment methods were often painful and ...

Tooth decay can begin very early in a child’s life. If five states ban fluoride in drinking water, the costs to Medicaid for a significant increase in kids with cavities could top $40 million within ...

MORE than 150 kids a day are getting rotten teeth pulled out in hospital in England, grim data shows. Tooth extraction operations in children aged up to 19 surged by almost a fifth in the space of a ...