Cavities in teeth have been filled since earliest times with a variety of materials: stone chips, turpentine resin, gum, metals. Arculanus (Giovanni d'Arcoli) recommended gold-leaf fillings in 1484. The renowned physician Ambroise Paré used lead...

The dental key is an instrument that was used in dentistry to extract diseased teeth. Before the era of antibiotics, dental extraction was often the method of choice to treat dental infections, and extraction instruments date back several centuries. The...

Combat low dental care compliance rates with these five easy-to-implement strategies. Every day, pet owners across the country take their pets to local animal clinics, where veterinarians examine them carefully for signs of disease. One of the most common of those diseases is...

Medical examiners are likely to rely most heavily on dental records as they continue the grim task of identifying the victims of the fire at The Station. The blaze that engulfed the West Warwick, R.I., nightclub within minutes burned many of the victims...