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A new seven-state study finds that in treating young children for tooth decay, substituting silver diamine fluoride (SDF) for traditional restorative care could significantly cut Medicaid…

Comment on this storyCommentDENVER — Dental hygienist Jennifer Geiselhofer often cleans the teeth of senior patients who can't easily get to a dentist's office. But until recently, if she found a…

Fluoride should be added to water supplies across England to help curb the increasing number of children hospitalized with tooth decay, dental surgeons say.Almost 26,000 such children between the ages…

Article content An epidemiologist from CK Public Health plans to examine dental monitoring data in Chatham Kent schools to determine if there is a link between tooth decay and fluoridation in drinking…

Did you know that tooth decay is actually the most common chronic disease in children? In fact, it's five times more common than asthma. And unfortunately, the rate…

Dr. Katherine Roche hopes that now she can avoid drilling many of her patients' teeth. A few weeks ago, the Edmonton dentist received her first shipment of a new, non-invasive treatment for tooth…