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Periodontitis is a serious chronic inflammatory form of gum disease that affects millions worldwide. It can lead to tooth ...

A researcher has found that gum-chewing teenagers, and younger children as well, are giving themselves headaches with this habit. These findings could help treat countless cases of migraine and ...

The researchers note that the gum looks and feels like the type of gum found in convivence stores and can be stored at normal temperatures for years without damaging the ACE2 protein molecules that ...

We’ve all chewed a piece of gum that tasted amazing for ten seconds, then turned into flavorless rubber. To save you from that kind of disappointment ever again, we timed some of the most popular ...

Thousands of tonnes of plastic pollution could be escaping into the environment every year . . . from our mouths. Most chewing gum on sale is made from a variety of oil-based synthetic rubbers—similar ...

In recent decades, chewing gum has been inextricably linked with youth–especially teenagers perceived as being cool (see: every one of the popular girls in the film Clueless). Before that, in the ...

In the 2000 movie Bounce, Gwyneth Paltrow's character, Abby, explains that she really isn't a smoker at heart, but has started puffing on cigarettes to help her get off the nicotine gum to which she's ...