Now this was a tough decision to swallow. A Staten Island man who got a tooth-drill bit embedded in his lung after he accidentally inhaled it during a dental procedure won a $430,000 civil judgment — ...

Minimally invasive dentistry is more than new tech; it’s a shift from 'drill and fill' to a philosophy of prevention and ...

Lasers that can cut gum, tooth and bone are ending the despotic rule of the turbine dental drill. Allen Helfer is no sadist, but he does perform root canals on his dental patients without using ...

A dentist's drill might not be the best way to tackle tooth decay in children's teeth, a new study has concluded. Findings from a major dental trial suggest that preventing tooth decay from occurring ...

A Missouri dentist has invented a device that allows patients to control the dental drill. Michael Edwards, D.M.D., a dentist in Union, now offers his patients the Dental Button, a handheld device ...

A dentist has created a simple diagnostic liquid solution that can be applied to the surface of a patient’s teeth prior to a dental X-ray and which will help show dentists whether a tooth has ...

Smart publicity poised a dentist atop the medical profession for a few days last week. It was the first time that such a thing had happened since 1846 when Dentist William Thomas Green Morton of ...

TOOTHY GRIN: Robert Garelick, a Long Island dentist, sports a goofy grin on his face as he is led away by cops in Suffolk County yesterday. Victor Alcorn It wasn’t the drill that was buzzing — it was ...

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. — Do you enjoy going to the dentist? Some people find going to the dentist to be scary because of the thought of the dental drill. What if the drill misses? A dentist at Amelia ...

A new study shows that bacteria-killing jets of plasma could soon replace the drills used to treat cavities in our teeth, making visits to the dentist's office a bit less nerve-racking. Plasma is the ...

A team of mechanical engineering students from Johns Hopkins University is working with a Florida dentist to develop a device that aims to make dental procedures less daunting for many patients. Check ...

For the estimated ten percent of Americans with dental phobia, research suggests therapy and other options may help. (Michael Probst/AP) When I arrived at the dentist's office for my implant procedure ...