As dentistry becomes more personalized and the emphasis on prevention grows, so does the need to find out which patients will need more frequent visits and extra monitoring. A new study has focused on ...

In 1987, random samples of 150 Göteborg residents were selected from 3 age groups: 55, 65 and 75 yrs. Dentate subjects only were examined: 88, 72 and 48 subjects in the respective groups. In 1997, 56, ...

Regular recreational cannabis use may be linked to untreated coronal and root surface caries, as well as severe tooth loss, in U.S. adults. This large study was recently published in the Journal of ...

Should dental professionals continue to drill teeth and fill them with amalgam, or use composite, which bonds to teeth and provides a protective barrier against further decay? Christopher Lynch talks ...

OKAYAMA, Japan, Dec. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Okayama University report in Scientific Reports that optical coherence tomography, an imaging method based on infrared radiation, can be ...