Researchers from King’s College London just announced a new approach to fixing cavities that requires no injections, no drills, and no pain. It’s just a little blast of electric current that ...

I made my own gum in the lab! But here’s the challenge: I brought in some special guests, and whoever blows the biggest ...

If bacteria settle in between your teeth and form a cavity, your dentist must drill through your tooth just to get at it. But now dentists can trade their drills for a simple treatment that stops ...

A newly invented dental paste (search) could silence the dreaded whine of dentists’ drills, fixing early cavities without fillings. The paste was developed by researchers including Kazue Yamagishi, ...

It's not easy for dentists to get toddlers and young childred to sit still for a filling. NY1's Erin Billups takes a look at a new treatment that helps take away the pain of treating cavities in kids ...

A CHOP study shows how quality improvement strategies rapidly increased fluoride varnish use in young children’s checkups. This project demonstrates that preventive dental care can be scaled in a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER — More and more children are going to ...

Walk into the ER in Bethlehem, Pa., with a toothache, and you could walk out with a plug of Super Glue in your mouth. Doctors there may squirt your damaged tooth with the medical version of the stuff ...