Composite fillings show over 80% success in young children treated under general anesthesia. Bulk-fill methods reduce procedure time by 60% while maintaining high restoration quality. Material ...

No one in their right mind would ever look forward to a filling at the dentist. Why can’t our teeth fix themselves? Maybe they can. At long last, scientists from the University of Nottingham and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Regenerative dental fillings that allow teeth to heal themselves have ...

Your teeth may hurt due to a tooth fracture, cavity, broken filling, or an abscess in your mouth. Grinding or clenching your teeth at night may also cause tooth pain. Getting a sinus infection can ...

When patients go to the dentist to fill a cavity, they're trying to solve a problem -- not create a new one. But many dental patients get some bad news: bacteria can dig under their tooth-colored ...

Dating back at least to the 1980s, experts have debated the safety of metal “amalgam” cavity fillings, which contain a mixture of metals like silver, copper, nickel and—most alarmingly—mercury. The ...

Dentistry can save your teeth, but it's rare to see exactly how the process works. A dentist walked Insider through replacing cavities in two different teeth. Cavities are part of life — nine out of ...

Each of these innovations is available widely, including at the School of Dentistry’s faculty practice clinic and its student and resident clinics. “This is one of the neatest things, which just has ...

Scientists uncovered a Maya dental filling embedded with a jadeite gemstone, offering new insight into ancient dentistry.

I haven't seen a dentist for about eight years. Until today.<BR><BR>Among my regular teeth, I had no cavities. However, both my upper wisdom teeth have cavities. At first, the dentist referred to them ...

Are you a daily flosser? Or have you been avoiding the dentist since the 20th century? Either way, here are some major dental innovations over the past decade. Small cavities are manageable now ...