Oral frailty can shorten your life expectancy, so those dreaded visits, drills and all, really are for your own good.

A team led by researchers at the University of Osaka in Japan studied health and dental records of 190,282 adults aged 75 and ...

COUNTING teeth is something you might have done as a child when your adult ones were growing in. But scientists say the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Having decayed, filled and/or missing teeth was tied to increased risk for stroke and death. Risk was especially ...

The researchers also note that poor dental health may reflect wider issues such as limited access to healthcare or lower ...

Having a greater number of missing or decayed teeth has been linked to a shorter life expectancy in a new study.

George et al 1 have examined the association between the Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth (DMFT) index—a widely used metric for assessing overall dental health—and the risk of buccal mucosa cancer (BMC) ...

New research indicates that the condition and number of a person's teeth could predict their risk of premature death, emphasizing the importance of oral health.

Thousands of young children have had decayed teeth removed in England's hospitals over the last four years. Analysis by the Press Association shows a steady climb in the numbers of children aged 10 ...