Nearly 5000 children with rotten teeth are waiting in pain to have them surgically extracted. Health NZ figures show as of September, there were 4866 children and young people on the dental surgery ...

The long-term effects of banning fluoride from public drinking water across the country could cost families billions of dollars and result in millions of rotten teeth, a new analysis predicts. The ...

“In children, it is four to five times more prevalent than asthma, and by age 19, more than two-thirds of children have signs ...

Once hailed as a triumph of public health, water fluoridation is now under intense attack in the US. Despite decades of data proving its efficacy at protecting teeth from decay—particularly children’s ...

More than a quarter of five-year-olds in England still have rotten teeth, a damning report reveals. Rates of tooth decay in young children remain very poor despite a range of interventions, health ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Physician who writes about the rising rates of cancer in young adults. I spoke with a pediatric dentist, Dr. Helen Mo, about the ...

There are a lot of things to think about when you’re the parent of a young child.  And that includes teeth, even before they ...