Sealant Recommendations Vary per Dentist Beliefs The dentist, practice, and patient characteristics that impact dentists’ decisions to recommend sealants as a caries prevention measure were discussed during a March presentation at the…

Secretions Key to Health, and Calcium Key to Their Function Bodily secretions help keep the human body fully functional. And according to a new study, calcium—which is present in all bodily cells—is a gatekeeper of this activity. An…

Predicting Risk of Early Childhood Caries Closing the gap between dental and medical care through interprofessional collaboration is key to promoting oral health and reducing oral health disparities among young children. Researchers believe…

Brain Stimulation May Provide Pain Relief With a sweeping national initiative to reduce the number of opioid prescriptions in the United States for the treatment of chronic pain, it comes as no surprise that alternatives to pain relief are…

Study Links Life's Events to Biological Rhythm in Teeth While it’s well known that the human body is run by a biological clock, the fact that even teeth have their own biological rhythms may come as a surprise. Researchers at

Researchers Find Link Between Oral Bacteria and Esophageal Cancer A team of researchers at the University of Louisville (UofL) School of Dentistry in Kentucky has discovered that a bacterial species responsible for gingivitis is also…

Antidepressants May Threaten Implant Success Antidepressant medications are the second most prescribed drug in the United States. However, according to researchers at the University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in New York, the…

US Recognizes, Attempts to Tackle Prescription Opioid Epidemic Through the collaborative efforts of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the White House, the American…

Needle Free Anesthesia? Dental anxiety is often related to patients’ fear of needles. A new study, however, suggests that needles may be replaced by iontophoresis, the use of a tiny electric current to administer anesthesia in the dental…

Inorganic Mercury May Damage Key Cell Processes In what is being called the first study to compare the effects of inorganic and organic mercury compounds on a model organism, University of Georgia, Athens, researchers sought to understand…