Oral health

ADA Launches Day of Action to Reauthorize CHIP

Federal funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which serves 8.9 million children...

Oral Microbiome Researcher Named AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has named Floyd Dewhirst, DDS,...

SSB Consumption Declining But Remains High for Some Groups

Sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption declined for both children and adults in the United States...

Dentists Have Much to Celebrate This Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite secular holiday because the word thanksgiving in its purest sense...

ProHEALTH Dental and Mount Sinai Open Joint Practice in Queens

ProHEALTH Dental and the Mount Sinai Health System opened their first affiliated dental office...

Penn Dental Rolls Out New Mobile Clinic in Philly

When children lack access to oral healthcare, they also run a greater risk of...

Define Periodontal Disease by Its Pathogens

Periodontal disease by definition is an infectious, contagious, inflammatory, polymicrobial disease with systemic and...

Spike in Syphilis Cases Keeps Dentists on Alert

Syphilis rates are at their highest since 1993, with 8.7 cases per 100,000 people...

Half of Kids Lie About Brushing Their Teeth

Almost half of the children in the United Kingdom (48%) lie occasionally or even...

Oral Bacteria Linked with Atherosclerosis

For a long time, doctors have assumed that the lipids that cause atherosclerosis came...