Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The World Health Organization estimates there are two billion untreated cavities globally — and that poor oral health remains a ...

About seven years ago, Aaron Silverbook and his then-girlfriend, a biologist, were perusing old scientific literature online. “A romantic evening,” joked Silverbook. That night, he came across a study ...

Samkelisiwe Khumalo first noticed cavities in her daughter Unathi's teeth when she was four. Two years later, Unathi has sixteen cavities-six in her bottom teeth and ten in her upper. She has never ...

"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 ...

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Cavities are part of life — nine out of ten adults will have one at some point in their life and a quarter of all adults have an untreated cavity. Getting cavities treated can be scary — but knowing ...