Supervised toothbrushing in schools is making positive progress in a bid to overcome health inequalities in pediatric dental health. A significant expansion in the BRUSH supervised toothbrushing project, which is now delivered ...
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Jeffrey Stansbury, Ph.D., senior associate dean for research and professor at the CU Anschutz School of Dental Medicine, has four properties he wants the next generation of dentures to include: that they are cheaper, faster ...
May 5, 2026
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Treating patients who have spent years—sometimes decades—avoiding dental care because of fear, disability, trauma or painful past experiences can be challenging. "They are afraid and don't want to be treated," said Adela ...
Apr 30, 2026
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People who experienced early socioeconomic disadvantage (SED) were 12–16% less likely to go for preventive dental visits during both adolescence and adulthood, a new University of Bristol study has found. The findings, published ...
Apr 29, 2026
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A study from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has identified a significant link between maternal care and lifelong oral health. Led by Prof. Avi-Hai Hovav and the DMD/Ph.D. student Reem Naamneh from the Faculty of Dental ...
Apr 29, 2026
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Many young Australians are beginning their winter sports season, gearing up for sports such as football, hockey, and rugby. Apart from the training sessions, weekend games, and oranges at halftime, these contact sports also ...
Apr 27, 2026
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People getting their teeth pulled or drilled by dentists in the United States are still much more likely to get powerful opioid medications than dental patients in other developed countries or even the U.S. territory of Puerto ...
Apr 24, 2026
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Researchers led by Henry Daniell of the School of Dental Medicine have shown that extracts from bioengineered chewing gum reduce the levels of three microbes known to be associated with head and neck squamous cell cancer ...
Apr 21, 2026
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Injecting nivolumab (Opdivo) directly into precancerous oral lesions led to a reduction in lesion size and allowed some patients to avoid surgery, according to research from a Phase I clinical trial presented at the American ...
Apr 21, 2026
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For millions of Americans living in rural communities, getting specialized dental care can mean driving an hour, or more, just to sit in the dental chair. A patient in rural Wyoming needing a root canal may travel over an ...
Apr 20, 2026
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