Welcome to a time so long ago that people with no dental insurance still could get their teeth drilled, and perhaps filled. Flint-wielding specialists performed the work between 9,000 and 7,500 years ...

The medical team was successfully able to pull out the metal piece from the narrow airways without any harm to the patient. If you've ever endured a dental filling based on the advice that there's no ...

Minimally invasive dentistry is more than new tech; it’s a shift from 'drill and fill' to a philosophy of prevention and early intervention.

WASHINGTON — Scientists have now proved what patients in dentists' chairs have often thought: Drilling teeth is downright prehistoric. Dentists drilled nearly perfect tiny holes in the teeth of live ...

Martin N. Staunt, 99, who was involved in numerous philanthropic activities and was the inventor of a high-speed dental drill used by American military dentists in World War II, died Friday, Sept. 22, ...

Dentists drill bigger holes in teeth than necessary for restorations because of an optical illusion that makes circular objects look smaller than they really are, according to a new study in PLOS One ...

A “robotic” dentist’s drill is to be tested on humans in Europe and the US, and could represent the first step towards more automated dental procedures. The drill, developed by Tactile Technologies, ...

#DIYdentist has 2.6 million views, with ‘advice’ ranging from cementing gems to filing your teeth Watch enough TikTok videos and you’re sure to see one extolling a special kind of do-it-yourself ...

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but what about the dentist? One dental clinic on Fort Bliss is fighting tooth and drill to keep Soldiers out of the dentist office by reducing the number of ...

When my son and daughter were youngsters, once a year I’d have a disagreement with their pediatric dentist. He wanted to do routine annual X-rays, and I would protest because neither child ever had ...