Most of us take it for granted that December should be a month for festive cheer, not wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Commentary: Why shouldn’t I have been discombobulated by the diagnosis in this joyful season of a visit by the Ghost of Root ...

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People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who experience a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain should be able to ...

When Nancy Major developed a lump in her lower jaw, she assumed it was a routine dental issue. But what started out as a minor problem quickly developed into an extremely rare and aggressive cancer ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Trips to the dentist can be painful for your teeth and wallet. But one local dentist office on the Southside is stepping in to help community members who are struggling to ...

The primary treatment for a tooth abscess is always surgical: drainage, root canal, or extraction. Antibiotics alone cannot cure an abscess because they can’t remove the source of the infection.

"It was bizarre because I had no pain or swelling in my mouth to tell me there was something wrong," Graham Bell said of his cracked tooth Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

Graham Bell, 61, opened up about being diagnosed with a life-threatening brain abscess, which he contracted via a cracked tooth He wound up having a "life-saving brain surgery," after "a mass in [his] ...