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

There's growing evidence that the number of missing teeth a person has is an indicator of their risk of dying earlier than ...

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

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

Having a greater number of missing or decayed teeth has been linked to a shorter life expectancy in a new study.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Having decayed, filled and/or missing teeth was tied to increased risk for stroke and death. Risk was especially ...

Happy New Year People! As we continue to sail into the New Year, many of us are setting resolutions to improve our health and well-being. Understandably, diet and fitness must be topping most lists; ...

A dentist's drill might not be the best way to tackle tooth decay in children's teeth, a new study has concluded. Findings from a major dental trial suggest that preventing tooth decay from occurring ...

Scientists invent a material that mimics how tooth enamel naturally grows inside the person's mouth. This breakthrough promises treatment to tooth decay and dentin hypersensitivity. The material was ...

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, ...