Maintaining a bright, healthy smile isn’t just about brushing your teeth twice a day and flossing regularly. What we drink plays a crucial role in our dental health, often impacting our teeth in ways ...

Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year is often packed with opportunities to consume sugar. But what happens in your mouth during those first minutes and ...

When you drink cold water or a hot cup of coffee, do your teeth feel a little sensitive? Or, when you take a bite of food, do you have a toothache shortly after? If you answered yes, you might be ...

Researchers from the U.K. and Japan used the Diamond Light Source synchrotron in Oxfordshire and the Photon Factory synchotron in Tsukuba, Japan, to solve the 3D structure of an enzyme that plays a ...

Maintaining good oral hygiene is essential for preventing common dental and gum diseases that affect the mouth, teeth, lips, tongue and other parts of the oral cavity. Health experts recommend simple ...

WEST FRANKFORT — This week, Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation’s Land of Smiles visited Denning Elementary School, reaching 320 pre-kindergarten through third grade students. Land of Smiles is a free ...

Providing free fluoride varnish to young children on the Isle of Man should ease the "strain on dental services" as they get ...

Clinical Professor of Cariology, Prevention and Restorative Dentistry, Texas A&M University Driving through downtown Dallas, you might see a striking banner hanging at the U-turn bridge, near the ...

Just over 27% of children in Wales were found to have experienced tooth decay in a new survey, which had fallen from 32.4% ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sugar feeds the colonies of bacteria living in your mouth and surrounding your teeth. Andrii Zastrozhnov/iStock via Getty Images ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) José Lemos, University of Florida and Jacqueline Abranches, University of Florida (THE ...