Discover natural ways to whiten your teeth using safe, effective ingredients from your kitchen for a brighter, healthier ...

Award-winning dental hygienist Claire-Louise Berry considers the core strategies for successfully marketing a ‘sexy’ oral ...

Most oral and dental diseases are preventable, if you take care of your teeth and mouth. In-between visits to the dentist, ...

Enamel, the hardest and most mineralized substance in the body, covers the outer layer of each tooth. It's the first defense ...

While many surfaces can host biofilms — the plaque on your teeth is a biofilm — plastics appear to provide an especially strong bond that attracts the most prolific bacteria, according to the ...

Plaque, a sticky biofilm that coats your teeth, can damage your teeth and gums. It is common for people to think that plaque, which begins to form on teeth within hours after eating, and tartar ...

These bacteria inhabit not only the surfaces of the teeth and gums in biofilm—a sticky, structured community that can be both ...

"This is the first study showing the clinical efficacy of a nanotherapy in the treatment of a severe chronic biofilm infection," says Hyun (Michel) Koo of Penn Dental Medicine. "We previously ...