Background: Incorporating gum disease assessment into epidemiologic studies would facilitate investigations of disease etiology. Objective: We evaluated the accuracy and inter-rater reliability of ...

Research has long pointed to a link between poor gum health and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease — and now, a new trial suggests that treating severe gum disease may reduce the narrowing of a ...

Around 40% of U.S. adults ages 30 and older have some level of gum disease, known as periodontitis, a chronic inflammatory condition whose progression leads to wobbly teeth, tooth loss and persistent ...

A Cary teenager received a $25,000 scholarship for developing a potentially effective treatment for cardiovascular disease. Jamie Cheng, 16, is one of 21 students nationwide to receive the Davidson ...

A research team led by Indiana University School of Medicine physician scientists has made significant progress in mapping kidney cells that may one day allow for more accurate disease diagnosis.

Gum disease is a common oral health condition that can affect people of all ages. From the mild inflammation of gingivitis to the more severe periodontitis, gum disease requires timely intervention ...

There’s a tension in modern periodontics that we don’t talk about enough. A clinical paradox. We have our primary enemy in sight: a pathogenic biofilm that destroys the structures holding teeth in ...

It costs approximately $100 billion to treat cardiovascular disease in the United States each year, with most of those expenses going toward hospital inpatient stays and medication, according to a ...

An estimated 1.1 million Americans are living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), making it the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s. “Parkinson’s is a disease in which neurons ...