THE health and life expectancy in Guyana have been improving over the years. More people are surviving with chronic illness, many are on long-term …

HOW is your breath? Not sure? No doubt at some point each of us has had bad breath (halitosis) unwittingly, only to subsequently be …

WHENEVER we hear the term “drug abuse” we conceptualise the excessive use of alcohol, cocaine and marijuana. In reality, however, the problem significantly includes …

PARENTS have the responsibility of beginning the process of oral health care for their children which starts when the child is about four months …

I HAVE no doubt that seasoned dentists such as myself, and I call those dentists with a few decades of experience, seasoned, would like …

DURING the upcoming festive season, many persons are likely to be either new recruits to smoking or the old smokers will exacerbate their habit. …

Every so often patients ask me the same question often. Here are a few. Is it okay for my child to suck his thumb? …

THIRTY-FIVE days after the sperm fertilises the egg, the teeth begin to form. At this point in the development of the embryo which is …

UNDOUBTEDLY at some time in our lives we will all suffer from a sore throat. But while this seems normal, the cause and evolution …

THE first institution to train dentists was opened in Baltimore, USA in 1840. Since then there was an increasing tendency for dentists to restore …