Despite the World Health Organization’s recent warning about it, aspartame doesn’t pose a cancer risk, the FDA and industry experts insist — but given that the artificial sweetener is used in many ...

A significant part of dental hygiene often focuses on aesthetic concerns, yet the importance of gums is often overlooked.

Advertisements for special toothpastes, powders and gums suggest that it’s possible. Here’s what dental experts say. By Katie Camero Most of us know that the best defense against tooth decay — or ...

The study found that gum disease and tooth loss were linked to brain shrinkage in the hippocampus, which plays a role in memory and Alzheimer's disease. The study does not prove that gum disease or ...

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Gum disease might be doing more than affecting your smile—it could also be altering your brain activity and increasing the ...

Having diabetes makes you three times as likely to develop gum disease because diabetes compromises the body's response to inflammation and infection. At the same time, treating diabetes patients for ...

Frank Scannapieco is affiliated with The Task Force on Design and Analysis in Oral Health Research, and consults for the Colgate-Palmolive Company. Ira Lamster is a member of the Santa Fe Group. He ...