Just about the time a youngster's first teeth start coming in, they are also learning to walk. That can set them up for dental injuries, that only increase as they grow older and become more active.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 7 - While dental injury during seizures is rare in patients with epilepsy, it occurs more frequently in those with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME), according to ...

Medicine and dentistry too often ignore each other. This schism doesn’t serve anyone well, but those with brain injury tend to suffer more harm to their teeth. And since mouth health affects body ...

Teeth are made up of a combination of hard and soft tissue. You may not think of teeth as living, but healthy teeth are alive. When the nerves in the pulp of the tooth, which is the inner layer, ...

A “dead tooth” refers to a tooth when there is no longer any blood flow to it. Sometimes this is also known as a “non-vital tooth.” Both tooth decay and an injury can cause a dead tooth. In this ...

Tooth extractions are commonly associated with a fair amount of trauma. But they can become a matter of applying light pressure and waiting for a telltale "pop," signaling the disengagement of the ...