Discover how early pediatric dental care prevents anxiety, builds healthy habits and sets children up for a lifetime of confident, healthy smiles.

A tooth cavity and bleeding gums is a common scenario among Danish children – and one that researchers now connect to health problems long after the last baby tooth has left the mouth. Children who ...

Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) face unique challenges concerning oral health, which may predispose them to serious systemic infections. The interplay between compromised cardiac function ...

More than half of young children in the UK admit to fibbing to parents about brushing their teeth, according to new research.

Not long ago, Dr. Suzanne Fournier saw a 16-year-old patient with a swollen face and difficulty breathing. Fournier, a dentist who practices at an urban hospital in Louisiana, had to extract six of ...

Children's access to NHS dentists and rates of tooth decay remain very poor despite improvements from national government interventions, oral health experts say. Analysis of the latest government data ...

Oral health is essential to general health and well-being, but there is an epidemic of oral diseases affecting vulnerable populations—poor children, older people, and many members of racial and ethnic ...

Burroughs is senior director of public policy at the CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. Major shifts in public health policy can bring unforeseen consequences. But in the case of fluoride bans, we ...

Some of the most common diseases that impact our oral health include cavities (tooth decay), gum (periodontal) disease, and oral cancer.

Supervised toothbrushing in schools is making positive progress in a bid to overcome health inequalities in pediatric dental ...