Persistent tooth infection may cause ear and head pain because of the connection between your teeth and the trigeminal nerve.

When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in ...

Using metagenomic screening — a technique for sequencing genetic material in samples that contain genomes from a mixture of ...

Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is trying to distinguish the healthy bacteria in our ...

Zhang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is trying to distinguish the healthy bacteria in our mouths from ...

HAVING not been to the dentist since before the Covid pandemic, Vicki Williams was so “embarrassed” of her teeth, she hid ...

The tooth-in-eye surgery is very rare—so rare that despite being pioneered in the 1960s Chapman is the first Canadian ever to ...

What if brushing and flossing one day became unnecessary—not because oral hygiene was unimportant, but because our mouths ...

Among these, cranberries stand out due to their unique bioactive compounds, particularly A-type proanthocyanidins (PACs), ...

Certain bacteria typically found in the mouth and throat may be a trigger for heart attacks, recent research suggests.