Category: DENTAL

Dental visits found to increase with support from pediatric providers

Credit: JAMA Network Open (2024). DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.18217 Primary care pediatric clinicians could influence parents’ decisions to take their children to the dentist, according to a new clinical trial. In a

First narrow-spectrum antibiotic successfully eliminates Fusobacterium nucleatum, a gum disease pathogen

Microbial community analysis using 16S rRNA sequencing. FP-100 treatment reduced the relative abundance of F. nucleatum without a significant change in alpha diversity, but a significant community shift was demonstrated

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