“He hides his smile in every school photo,” Jayden’s mother told me, holding up a picture of her 6-year-old son. I first met Jayden – not his real name – as a patient at the University of Florida ...

Children who do not eat breakfast are more likely to develop cavities than those who do, a new study reports. And while cavities tend to be a bigger problem for poor children than for those who grow ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief that sugary snacks are the primary cause of cavities in young children. The research indicates that fac ...

Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) demonstrated how a multifaceted intervention approach ...

Children and Cavities Children often get cavities due to poor homecare habits. They forget to brush after breakfast or before bed and when they do brush, they rarely clear plaque from all tooth ...

Add this to the collateral damage of the nation's childhood obesity epidemic: young children are getting more cavities in their baby teeth now than they were a decade ago, even as the nation's overall ...

(CNN) — The longstanding public health practice of adding fluoride to public drinking water systems in the United States is facing new challenges and bans in some places, and experts have warned that ...

Dental caries, commonly referred to as cavities or tooth decay, continue to be big problems among young children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tooth decay is the most ...

Recently, Colgate-Palmolive agreed to transform its marketing and packaging of toothpaste for small children to show pea-sized dabs on toothbrushes rather than large swirls over concerns by the Texas ...

In a May 2025 national poll by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association in cooperation with the American Dental Association (ADA), more than 4 out of 5 survey takers said they are familiar with ...

Children often acquire S. mutans from non-family members.New ongoing research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Biology and School of Dentistry is showing more evidence that ...