When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn’t find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin Community Clinics referred ...

People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who ...

Need a tooth pulled or a cavity filled? Forget the dentist. A number of states are allowing or considering letting "dental therapists," professionals with a lower level of training, do the job. In ...

Patients are resorting to self-treatment, including pulling their own teeth or using unprescribed antibiotics, due to a severe lack of NHS dental appointments. Healthwatch England found that people in ...

Texas authorities arrested a man who allegedly posed as a dentist and damaged a woman’s jaw after he used pliers to pull out a tooth. Cesar Augusto Perez Mejia, 47, stands accused of practicing ...