Dentistry

The federal agency that provides health care to Native Americans and Alaska Natives has announced it will phase out the use of dental fillings containing mercury.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Detecting gum disease currently requires a dentist chair and a visual exam, often catching problems only after tissue damage has started. To shift care from reactive to proactive, researchers at Texas A&M University have engineered […]

Malocclusions, or misaligned bites, refers to a condition in which the upper and lower teeth do not align properly when the mouth is closed. It can arise from a variety of factors, including tooth position […]

Teeth are one of the most visible markers of poverty: structural circumstances that are individually borne.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

We’re all familiar with the idea that we have to use antibiotics wisely. You’ve probably seen a poster at your local health center warning about their loss of effectiveness, and with good reason—bacterial resistance to […]

An association between oral microbiota and cognitive performance in schizophrenia has been reported by researchers at Science Tokyo. By analyzing saliva samples and cognitive test scores from patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls, the study […]

An international collaboration of researchers have successfully adapted a Japanese oral health screening tool for use among English-speaking older adults in the United States, potentially enabling earlier detection of oral frailty—an age-related decline in oral […]

The International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research and the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research have published an editorial exploring the benefits of open data in the Journal of Dental Research […]

Millions of people worldwide suffer from gum disease, yet we still don’t fully understand how healthy gums turn into damaged, scar-like tissue. Researchers are using cutting-edge single-cell technology to map every individual cell in the […]

It’s well established that gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are strongly linked. But what wasn’t known, until a recent study, was that the two churn through a vicious cycle, feeding off each other and […]