Oral frailty can shorten your life expectancy, so those dreaded visits, drills and all, really are for your own good.

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

There's growing evidence that the number of missing teeth a person has is an indicator of their risk of dying earlier than ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BRITISH kids are some of the least healthy in Europe, warn MPs who branded it a “source of shame”. A report by the Commons ...