Dental News

A common gum disease may indicate a person's risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis later in life, according to a University of Adelaide dental expert. Professor...

Professor John Spencer and the team at the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health will lead a national study into children’s oral health,...

After a number of years in the planning, health insurer NIB—which last week caused some controversy by endorsing medical tourism—launched its much-promised Whitecoat website,...

Cigarette smoking is on the decline, but water pipe smoking is more popular than ever-with users often unaware of the dangers, writes Meg Crawford. A...

ADX14 Sydney is Australia’s premier dental event, with free continuing professional development (CPD) programs supporting the dental exhibition to make it easy for dental...

For the first time, researchers from the Centre for Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich together with colleagues abroad have been able to...

Almost four million under 14s in the UK are at risk of developing serious oral health problems due to inadequate tooth-brushing supervision, according to...

For the first time, researchers from Germany have shown that a unicellular parasite commonly found in the mouth plays a role in both severe...

The chemistry department and dental school of the University of Otago, New Zealand, have together developed a new way to preserve teeth infected by...

The procedural differences between dentist and physician anaesthesiologists have recently been examined by US researchers. Their findings are published in the current issue of Anesthesia Progress. Dentist...

To really make your online presence work, maybe you need the skills of an influencer—as Dr Amelia Judson reveals. By Kerryn Ramsey As a newly...

The Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (RACDS) has appointed Dr Karen Luxford as its new chief executive officer. Dr Luxford joins the College from the Clinical...