Fluoride has been the standard ingredient in anti-cavity toothpaste — and it’s probably a part of your current oral care routine — but modern oral care brands are bringing attention to a ...

For as long as I can remember, I have bought into the gospel of fluoride, believing that my teeth would surely rot out of my head without its protection. So it felt a little bit illicit, recently, ...

Hydroxyapatite (HAP) toothpaste is a dental product that contains manufactured calcium phosphate. Calcium and phosphate are minerals that form 95% of tooth enamel and 70% of bones. NASA developed HAP ...

Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, deputy editor at So Yummy and senior lifestyle editor at Hunker. Over the past 10+ years, Anna has also written for the ...

Synthetic hydroxyapatite (HA) is of importance as a biomaterial as it is chemically similar to the mineral component of mammalian bone. As such the human body (and for that matter, the bodies of other ...

Porous hydroxyapatite has been accepted that due to its unfavourable mechanical properties it cannot be used under load bearing purposes. For this reason hydroxyapatite has been used as thin film ...