Oral health plays an important role and dental issues can sometimes ruin it all. Hence dental checkups are as important as regular health checkups. Various dental treatment and procedures are ...

Lasers offer many advantages in cavity preparation, but even at recommended settings, they may kill pulp and weaken dentin. So dentists should turn down their lasers and cut more slowly, warned a ...

Human digested dentin matrix extract (DDME) may be used as a biomaterial for dentin regeneration, making it a possible option for vital pulp therapy like pulpotomy, according to an animal study ...

Dentin hypersensitivity is an oral condition characterized by a sharp pain in the affected tooth or teeth. The stimuli expose the dentin. It typically responds to thermal, evaporative, tactile, or ...

Severe tooth decay or trauma damages the tooth. The living tissues that comprise the sensitive inner dental pulp become exposed and vulnerable to harmful bacteria. Once infection takes hold, few ...