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A user’s guide to gum contouring, a dental procedure that removes gum tissue to show more of the teeth.

Your children overhear almost everything you say — good and bad.

Eating together as a family helps your kids in many ways. Here are ways to get the dinner table conversation started.

Environment is shown to play a much more significant role in the mouth’s microbial set up than genes. The human mouth is a community bustling with microorganisms that live there. Little knowledge exists about what factors control which types that live there and which don’t…

There are various types of toothpaste available on the market. They come as pastes and gels, there are some that guard against tooth decay or protect teeth from acid attack, others that are designed for sensitive teeth. But which toothpastes clean well? Which preserve the…

People who maintain their chewing ability are probably less likely to develop dementia, compared to those who cannot chew well any more, researchers from the Department of Odontology and the Aging Research Center at the Karolinska Institutet and from Karlstad University found. The authors reported…

The population is ageing, and the older we become the more likely it is that we risk deterioration of our cognitive functions, such as memory, decision-making and problem solving. Research indicates several possible contributors to these changes, with several studies demonstrating an association between not…

What’s the latest, research-supported best practice in periodontal care and implant dentistry? dental specialists and generalists alike can read about it in the first of a new series from The Journal of Evidence-Based dental Practice (JEBDP), the foremost publication of information about evidence-based dental practice,…