Oolitt is launching a marketing campaign featuring a cartoon character to promote the use of its new Oolitt-Jr tongue scrapers. The Oolitt-Jr is designed for

Philips is partnering with the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto to provide its power toothbrushes to patients in the hospital’s dental clinic in

LONDON (Reuters), May 28 – People who don’t brush their teeth twice a day have an increased risk of heart disease, scientists said on Friday,

Komet USA has introduced a new stainless steel bur block that holds up to 40 rotary instruments during the sterilization process, the company announced. Bur

Plackers, a provider of consumer oral care products, has partnered with Oral Health America to donate dental flossers that will reach more than 30,000 children

As the field of dental implantology continues to have a significant effect on dental treatment planning, the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) recently reaffirmed its

A defective, mutant strain of the bacterium that causes periodontal disease could provide a clue to potential treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and a number of

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has acquired NovaMin Technologies, makers of a calcium phosphate oral product ingredient, for 87 million pounds ($135 million as of December 2009), the

Perfect Smile fluoride toothpaste with the coenzyme CoQ10 yielded “significant improvement” over regular fluoride toothpaste in healing gingivitis, according to a study in the May

The New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry has received a one-year grant from the United Hospital Fund to provide underserved older adults in New

Listerine has introduced “This Is Your Mouth,” a documentary-style commercial narrated by actor Neil Patrick Harris (CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother”). The commercial shows

The oral health of Canadians is, on the whole, much better than it was in the 1970s, according to the oral health component of the