A Georgia man was arrested this week after his DNA was found to be a match for DNA taken from a dental floss pick dropped

Officials in South Dakota are looking to new legislation that expands dental hygienists’ duties to help the state improve its caries prevention statistics. A report

A Kentucky start-up has developed a manual toothbrush with an embedded sensor that maps brushing behavior and sends the data to an associated smartphone app

In a follow-up to a study conducted one year ago, researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Dentistry have determined that

A passenger’s electric toothbrush is being blamed for a security alert that wreaked havoc at Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta — considered the busiest airport in

A review of the research on irreversible procedures performed by midlevel providers (MLPs) concludes the evidence is too poor to compare the effectiveness of their

Despite thousands of published studies on the role of midlevel providers (MLPs) in dentistry, there is not enough scientific evidence to support the use of

More than 40 dental students from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles recently provided care at a Kenyan dental clinic where they

Few pictures in history are as enigmatic as the 1945 photo depicting a sailor kissing a nurse in New York’s Times Square. The picture was

Scientists who mapped the genome for the oral probiotic BLIS (bacteriocin-like inhibitory substance) K12 found no negative traits, which supports the safety of the strain,

A new systematic review has found that pregnant women who are at high risk for preterm birth and have periodontal disease may be able to