Dental News

Human Services minister Tanya Plibersek announced legislative changes on the weekend that will help Medicare investigators to demand patient records when investigating suspected Medicare...

Bupa Australia Health Pty Ltd (Bupa Australia) this week announced its plan to acquire 100 per cent of the shares in Dental Corporation (Dental...

Gaptoothed women are in vogue. Gaptoothed models were all over last week's runways at Paris Fashion Week. Instead of fixing their teeth, some of...

Almost all Swedes brush their teeth, yet only one in ten does it in a way that effectively prevents tooth decay. Now researchers at...

A new study published in the journal Immunity has revealed that the oral pathogen Fusobacterium nucleatum protects a variety of tumor cells from being...

With around one in six women experiencing domestic violence at the hands of a partner according to figures from the latest Australian Bureau of...

News reports concerning osteonecrosis of the jaw in some dental patients appear in mainstream media regularly, and require some clarification from oral health professionals....

A study recently reported that the cause of the burning mouth sensation of a woman has been discovered. After months of testing and consultations...

Japanese researchers have carried out successful tooth regeneration in a postnatal large-animal model, publishing their findings in this month's Scientific Reports. Conventional therapies for restoring...

Insufficient cleaning could allow build-up of microbes on orthodontic retainers, researchers at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute have found. Dr Jonathan Pratten and colleagues...

A new study at the University of Hong Kong’s faculty of dentistry has uncovered that loss of multiple teeth and contraction of associated oral...

Though most tooth decay can be blamed on bacteria such as Streptococcus mutans, a new study published in June in the journal PLOS Pathogens, has...