UP to eight grams (one-third of an ounce) of sugar is added to every 2 teaspoons of liquid forms of medication to preserve the …

THERE is a vicious circle between stress and dental disease. When someone is “stressed out” they tend to eat unhealthy. They are likely to …

FOR many years the dental profession worked mainly with rather inert (stable) materials that had limited contact with living tissue. The exception was dentures. …

THE tooth equation is pretty simple: germs plus sugar equals acid production. These acids can dissolve enamel and the tooth-root structure, resulting in a …

PROPHYLAXIS means “to prevent”. In dentistry, the term refers to professional cleaning, scaling, and polishing of the teeth by a dental professional. The purpose …

THE amount of current produced in the mouth by having different metals intraorally would seem quite small. Dentists refer to such conditions as “battery …

SUCCESSFUL treatment in the healing arts is not attributed exclusively to administering an appropriate remedy. Once there is person-to-person interaction, a certain degree of …

Anyone with recognised gum disease, also called periodontal disease, even in the early stages, is well advised to brush and floss their teeth thoroughly …

DENTAL caries, commonly known as tooth decay and gum disease, determine a person’s oral health level. Unfortunately, such diseases are so common that every …

BECAUSE germs are so abundant under the gums and are so intermingled with sloughed-off epithelial cells from the gingival tissue wall of the sulcus, …