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

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 ...

Levels of tooth decay among adults in England are now similar to those last seen more than 25 years ago, according to new figures. More than four in 10 people (41 per cent) had obvious signs of rotten ...

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

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease in the U.S. − more common than childhood obesity, asthma and diabetes — according to researchers from the National Health ...

Dental caries, also known as tooth decay, is the most common chronic disease in children in the United States — and your child’s pediatrician, family doctor or nurse can play an important role in ...

Tooth decay is the No. 1 chronic infectious disease affecting children nationwide, the CDC reports, and can begin as early as a child’s first birthday. The good news is, parents and caregivers can ...

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

It seems the days of going to the dentist for a filing could soon be nigh but we could soon be regrowing teeth with cavities ...