Browsing: Pediatric Dentistry

A few weeks ago, I took my 5-year-old son to the dentist and learned that there is a new option for preventing and treating tooth decay…

Dental care remains the largest unmet health need among US children.1 Left untreated, dental disease can lead to emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalization, and even death.2…

Scientists have discovered a simple, low-cost solution for it the most common chronic disease among children: tooth decay.More than half of US children between the ages…

Pop Quiz: At what age should children first go to the dentist? To a national representative overview conducted in 2017 on behalf of CS Mott Children’s…

An inexpensive cavity-fighting liquid called silver diamine fluoride (SDF) works as well as dental sealants to keep tooth decay at bay in a school cavity prevention…

By DIANNE GLASSCOE WATTERSON, RDH, BS, MBADear Dianne,My boss went to a meeting and heard a speaker say that we should apply topical fluoride to all…

The Union County Board of Commissioners voted to remove fluoride from the water supply Monday. (Creative Commons)Union County votes to remove fluoride from waterThe Union County…

Kazeminia M, Abdi A, Shohaimi S, Jalali R, Vaisi-Raygani A, Salari N, Mohammadi M. Dental caries in primary and permanent teeth in children worldwide, 1995 to…

In a perfect world, everyone would have access to consistent and comprehensive dental care from the time their first tooth erupts. Unfortunately, this is not the…

Biting a toothache or discovering a cavity is a universal dread. Dental caries, more commonly known as tooth decay, is an insidious adversary, affecting millions of…