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Periodontists and family doctors must collaborate to treat their patients' overall health, says new study

Close collaboration between family doctors and periodontists and other oral health professionals is necessary for an effective prevention, early detection and management of widespread systemic health conditions, affecting ...

Dentistry

Scientists create dental equipment that destroys viruses

Three years of the COVID-19 pandemic particularly affected the daily life of health care professionals, who consulted patients remotely due to being more likely to get infected, and some of them, like dentists, were even ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study examines the link between mental health and oral health

A study examining the mental health-oral health association cross-sectionally and longitudinally was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the AADOCR, held in conjunction with the 47th Annual Meeting of the ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Study: Diabetes and tooth loss together worsen cognitive decline

Having both diabetes and tooth loss contributes to worse cognitive function and faster cognitive decline in older adults, according to a new study published in a special issue of the Journal of Dental Research focused on ...

Dentistry

Study reveals that soft gums are more prone to inflammation

The tissue area that surrounds our teeth is known as the gingiva, and healthy teeth will nestle firmly into the gums thanks to the many gingival fibers that connect the tooth to the gingiva. The gingiva is home to fibroblasts—cells ...

Dentistry

Exploring the impact of teledentistry on kids' wellness

While the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything in the world, it also became a powerful catalyst for innovations that made remote delivery of health care and services—including dentistry—possible.

Dentistry

Lack of fluoride in rural areas impacting children

Since being first introduced into Australia in 1953 improve dental health, water fluoridation has been shown to reduce tooth decay by 26–44% in children and adolescents and by 27% in adults.