The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning against the use of dental amalgam – a popular filling material that contains mercury – in certain groups of people. Dental amalgam contains a mixture ...

A common test used to determine mercury exposure from dental amalgam fillings may significantly overestimate the amount of the toxic metal released from fillings, according to researchers. A common ...

Three Philadelphia dental practices were closed down after officials determined they had unsanitary conditions and may have exposed up to 1,500 patients to diseases, including HIV. The three Trieu ...

Current arrangements allow for training in one setting only, either dental hospital or dental practice, with little or no exposure to other settings. However, the vast majority of potential employers ...

According to a NIOSH study, over a quarter of private dental practices that participated in the study do not have a site-specific bloodborne pathogens exposure control plan (ECP). The study was ...

Widely used dental sealants and tooth repair resins contain substances that degrade into the controversial chemical BPA, but dentists can use the product safely in kids if they make sure to wipe or ...

Even if you have healthy, adult teeth and gums your dentist may recommend X-rays be taken every year. The dental profession, however, says otherwise. Annual preventive X-rays, called bitewings, for ...

About 7,000 patients who visited a suburban Tulsa, Oklahoma, dentist in the past six years may have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis, health investigators say. Investigators were left grasping for ...