A dental patient has been awarded more than £9,000 after he suffered infections and had to have a tooth removed following ...

A sore throat, loss of taste, and a burning tongue are telltale signs something is wrong. But the culprit might surprise you.

Acute otitis media (AOM) is one of the most common diseases in childhood for which antibiotics are commonly prescribed; a systematic review reported a pooled prevalence of 85.6% in high-income ...

After having her bottom two wisdom teeth out, which were very impacted, Silver was told to make sure to do all the normal ...

Dental care delays are common, but they come with risks. Learn what causes them and how we can change the pattern.

Throbbing molar at 11 p.m.? Shoots of ice-pick pain every time you sip water? Toothaches seem to come alive precisely when ...

Salivary Gland Infection: Treatment Hydration and intravenous antibiotics may be necessary to keep a salivary gland infection from spreading to the deep tissues of the head and neck or to the ...

Antibiotics are only recommended when there is severe infection that has spread from the root of the tooth. However, some dentists still routinely prescribe antibiotics to people with these conditions ...

Cystic fibrosis pulmonary disease is characterized by chronic and recurrent infection, airway inflammation, bronchiectasis and progressive obstructive lung physiology. Advances in the treatment of ...

Two pediatric doctors write that Florida’s new ban on fluoride in public drinking water will negatively affect all Floridians’ oral hygiene, but it will affect that of our children the ...

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine the expectations of patients attending an urban primary care out-of-hours (OOH) facility with acute upper respiratory tract infection (acute URTI) ...