A novel therapy holds real promise in changing the way dentists treat your cavities—they'd get the cavities to fill themselves. As the Guardian reports, researchers at King's College London found that ...

So far, there is a not a clear winner among the types of fillings used to repair childhood cavities, according to a new review. So far, there is a not a clear winner among the types of fillings used ...

When a dentist drills out the decayed section of a tooth that has a cavity, it’s important that they also remove the bacteria that caused the decay in the first place – or at least, that they remove ...

NEW ORLEANS - Dental fillings are getting stronger and less noticeable than the old metal cavity fillings. Now there is a new study to test the latest one on the market and the dentist is looking for ...

When patients go to the dentist to fill a cavity, they're trying to solve a problem -- not create a new one. But many dental patients get some bad news: bacteria can dig under their tooth-colored ...

A lot of people do. What if next time you have dental work done, you could skip all of that? Now there's a way to have a cavity filled without the drill and shots. It's easy even for children. Masih ...

Dentists have been using dental amalgam to fill cavities for more than 150 years. Now one group is suing the FDA, claiming that people are getting sick and that silver fillings need to be banned. I ...

(NEWSER) – A potential new way of filling cavities and a study sure to cheer those too busy to work out during the week were among the discoveries making headlines: Read about more discoveries on ...

Getting a filling isn't always the end of a tooth's cavity problems. Sometimes, bacteria is able to get down between the filling and the surface of the tooth, causing another cavity to occur. A new ...

Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth to regenerate in about a month, ...