Dental defects and early life events

In northern Tanzania, low birth weight children have a greater prevalence of developmental enamel defects at ages 6-36 months, providing new insight into the risk factors for dental problems in early childhood

Urban-rural disparities in Kentucky

Children in rural areas in Kentucky are significantly more likely to have untreated dental caries than children from urban areas, in contrast to national findings in the USA

The capital of dental pain

The social capital of a community and, to a lesser extent, the quality of an individual’s social network significantly impacts on the prevalence of dental pain among its inhabitants with high social capital linked to lower pain

Good teeth, good genes?

A number of novel genes potentially linked to caries susceptibility and resistance have been identified, several of them involved in common signalling pathways, opening the horizon for new approaches to overcoming this disease

A patient perspective on oral cancer screening

Dental patients have little knowledge of oral cancer and are unaware that dentists routinely screen for it but want to know more, suggesting a missed opportunity to increase awareness of the disease