Award-winning dental hygienist Claire-Louise Berry considers the core strategies for successfully marketing a ‘sexy’ oral ...

Around 1 in 3 Australians delayed their visit to a dentist in the last financial year—or didn't go at all—due to cost.

Plaque, a sticky biofilm that coats your teeth, can damage your teeth and gums. It is common for people to think that plaque, which begins to form on teeth within hours after eating, and tartar ...

The body reacts to this with inflammation. Initially, this process only affects the gums. The first signs of gingivitis are ...

While many surfaces can host biofilms — the plaque on your teeth is a biofilm — plastics appear to provide an especially strong bond that attracts the most prolific bacteria, according to the ...

These bacteria inhabit not only the surfaces of the teeth and gums in biofilm—a sticky, structured community that can be both beneficial and harmful—but also thrive in our saliva, contributing ...

"This is the first study showing the clinical efficacy of a nanotherapy in the treatment of a severe chronic biofilm infection," says Hyun (Michel) Koo of Penn Dental Medicine. "We previously ...

Most dental and oral diseases are due to an imbalance or overgrowth in these microbes within the plaque (or “biofilm”). Plaque gathers on the hard surfaces inside the mouth (your teeth), as ...