“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) “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 ...

A cheap cavity-fighting liquid typically used to treat sensitive teeth appears to work as well as dental sealants in preventing tooth decay, a new study finds. A single treatment of either silver ...

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 ...

The No. 1 chronic infectious disease affecting children isn’t colds or flu. It’s tooth decay – and it’s contagious. Decay can start as soon as teeth appear in the mouth. By age 5, about 60 percent of ...

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 ...