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Ancient Plaque Reveals Details About Our Ancestors’ Lives

There’s a surprising amount of information stored in the hardened plaque, or calculus, between teeth, according to an international team of researchers. And.

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Ancient Plaque Reveals Exotic Diets 3,700 Years Ago

A study of ancient proteins in human plaque has revealed that oriental elements and cooking oils were a part of diets in the.

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Oral Microbiome Communities Follow a Pattern Through Childhood

Researchers at the Ohio State University College of Dentistry found consistent patterns by using high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing to examine the oral.

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When an Oral Cancer Diagnosis Hits Home

April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month, and dentistrytoday.com will be celebrating the event with blogs, news stories, and other features all spotlighting the disease. #OralCancerAwareness.

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Bubbles Do the Hard Work in Ultrasonic Scaling

Ultrasonic scalers are effective tools in removing built-up plaque. Yet the formation of tiny bubbles around the heads of these devices is key.

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Dental Tartar Shows Early Evidence of Pollution

Dental tartar apparently first made an appearance about 400,000 years ago. Tel Aviv University researchers, along with scholars from Spain, the United Kingdom.

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