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Oral Health in America: A Report of the Surgeon General [1] maintains that 51 million school hours are lost annually due to dentally related illnesses. A new study was recently published by Jackson ...

Kids with numerous dental problems and severe gingivitis were up to 45% more likely to have a heart attack, stroke, or coronary artery disease as adults than kids with less oral disease.

The older adult population in the United States is rapidly increasing, with 10,000 Americans reaching retirement age every day, but many face barriers when it comes to accessing oral healthcare.

They say you can tell a lot about a person by their smile — confidence, warmth, sincerity. But scientists say your smile can also reveal something far deeper: the state of your heart. According to ...

"This paperback edition published by The New Press, 2019." - verso. "Show me your teeth," the great naturalist Georges Cuvier is credited with saying, "and I will tell you who you are." In this ...

Oral health care should be more affordable, accessible, and responsive to the needs of communities, write the authors of a new perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine. Credit: ...

They say that you can tell a lot by a person’s smile. Are you warm, sincere, comfortable, uncomfortable? The context of a smile can be an insightful nonverbal cue, but there’s more. Scientists also ...