Dental fillings are far from being a pleasant experience, but right now they're necessary to fill cavities and prevent ...

DETROIT — Five-year-old Skye is pretty happy for a kid who just had a cavity treated 30 minutes earlier. She's part of a study testing silver diamine fluoride, or SDF. It's a treatment to stop ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Dental hygienist Jennifer Geiselhofer often cleans the teeth of senior patients who ...

Every year, dentists fill 70-million cavities in the US. Kids don't like it for obvious reasons, and parents have been fearful of the exposure to Mercury in silver fillings. Exposure to too much ...

Dental hygienist Jennifer Geiselhofer often cleans the teeth of senior patients who can’t easily get to a dentist’s office. But until recently, if she found a cavity, there was little she could do. “I ...