http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. A recent study from the American Cancer Society purports that heavy coffee drinkers may reduce the risk of dying from mouth and throat cancer by half, but one dentist is not raising a coffee cup in support. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-benefits-coffee-oral-cancer-requires.html Cancer Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:05:42 EST news275040292 Scientists in Japan have created a microscopically thin film that can coat individual teeth to prevent decay or to make them appear whiter, the chief researcher said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-japan-tooth-patch.html Dentistry Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:13:14 EST news266998379 (Medical Xpress) -- Yale researcher Jose Cordova and Erich Astudillo from the University of Chile (and Founder of Top Tech Innovations SpA) have after working together, discovered a new molecule that kills the bacteria Streptococcus Mutans; long known to be responsible for breaking down sugars in food in the mouth and leaving behind lactic acid which corrodes tooth enamel leading to decay. The new molecule they call Keep 32 (after the 32 teeth in the average human mouth) has been found to kill the bacteria on contact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-molecule-cavity-mouth-bacteria.html Dentistry Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:18:33 EST news261137881 Forensic practitioners and anthropologists will be among those to benefit from new University of Kent research on the dental development of humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-dental-discovery-benefit-forensic-practitioners.html Dentistry Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:57:02 EST news250332934