Consistent maintenance of oral health, and by extension relatively perfect teeth at the age of 18, can be compared to achieving a professional degree …

Everyone is afraid of cancer and some people may observe a fleshy growth on either the gums or tongue, or even a scaly lesion …

Formal care services depend on informal care-givers to ensure good health. For example, dentists rely on patients to restrict their children’s diet and to …

Insufficient oral secretion is caused by a condition called xerostomia. A reduction in the amount of flow of saliva, which may occur for various …

Because a toothache patient is a scheduling problem for some dentists, a popular solution is to prescribe pain killers and an antibiotic to fight …

I would not be surprised to learn that I am the only dentist who would not perform root canal therapy on a patient’s tooth …

I would not be surprised to learn that I am the only dentist who would not perform root canal therapy on a patient’s tooth …

Generally, unless health professionals were unusually insensitive to patients’ reactions, health education often had a patronising ring to it. Therefore, when a dental health …

Caries, which is a Latin word meaning decay, describes the progressive destruction of enamel, dentine and cementum. These are the hard parts of a …

Most people will tell you that have heard of plaque but few would be able to explain its composition and the role it plays …