Dental Dose is a twice-monthly video series featuring pharmacologist Tom Viola, RPh. In each episode, Viola shares bite-sized pieces of dental pharmacology news, facts, and myths. Last spring, the ...

Tooth loss is often the final stage of oral diseases like dental caries and periodontal disease, and has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and higher mortality rates, ...

Sweden is one of the few countries that have removed the dental health recommendation to give prophylactic antibiotics to people at a higher risk of infection of the heart valves, so-called infective ...

A team of scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham have just published one of the most comprehensive multi-disciplinary reviews covering nearly 40 years of discoveries ...

Mohsen Yazdanian; Bahram Armoon; Alireza Noroozi; Rasool Mohammadi; Amir-Hosein Bayat; Elahe Ahounbar; Peter Higgs; Hormoz Sanaei Nasab; Azadeh Bayani; Morteza Hemmat The limitations of our systematic ...

Some dentists drill these early spots; others try alternatives. Dec. 2, 2011— -- By the time a dentist finds a cavity, that tooth has been through several stages of a chronic infectious disease ...

Subacute bacterial endocarditis is a type of infective endocarditis. It's an infection that occurs when germs such as bacteria enter the bloodstream and attack the lining of the heart valves. This ...

A 58-year-old healthy man with stellar oral hygiene and dietary habits developed carious lesions on almost every posterior tooth adjacent to where he habitually held a sugar-free nicotine lozenge. The ...

In a recent cross-sectional study published in BMC Public Health, researchers examined the potential association between serum vitamin D status and the prevalence and number of teeth affected by ...