A high number of low-income students ages 6 to 11 (6.5 million) are lacking dental sealants due in part to state-based regulations and policies that limit or prohibit dental hygienists from sealing children’s teeth at schools, a recent Pew…

You’ll get the best results from scaling and root planing if you implement the blended approach. Take our quiz to see how much you know about this effective technique.

Oral health professionals should stay up to speed on the ins and outs of radiography as a useful diagnostic tool for both adults and children.

Oral health professionals should consider recommending non-opioid painkillers to teens and young adults instead of opioids after having their wisdom teeth removed, according to a new study led by the  University of Michigan.

We know to advise our patients to limit—or say no to—the consumption of sweetened drinks and candy, but have you educated them about the risk of processed carbohydrates?

Tooth loss is a significant health issue currently affecting millions of people worldwide.

Compared with the general population, patients at risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) demonstrate higher levels of periodontal bacteria before evidence of the chronic inflammatory joint disease presents itself.

A University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine (Penn Dental Medicine) study has identified the Foxo1 protein as being key to angiogenesis (blood vessel formation), a process that’s crucial to wound healing.

As part of its ongoing commitment to improve dental hygiene accreditation standards, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) will continue advocating for the inclusion of dental hygiene diagnosis into the Accreditation Standards…

A $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) researchers study how herpesviruses, and their underlying molecular mechanisms, contribute to increased inflammation in oral…