Overcoming dental fear with the tap of an app

Dental FearLess app. Credit: David Song/NYU Does the idea of sitting in a dental chair make your palms sweat? Or do you simply avoid making appointments altogether? You’re not alone.

Daily toothbrushing tied to lower rates of pneumonia among hospitalized patients

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers have found an inexpensive tool that may help reduce rates of pneumonia for hospitalized patients—and it comes with bristles on one end. A new study

Shedding light on how oral bacteria can aggravate rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers unveil mechanism by which periodontal bacterium A. actinomycetemcomitans exacerbated symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) conducted various experiments in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They investigated the molecular-level