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No Significant Complications Reported in Year-Long Pediatric Anesthesia Study

In December 2016, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning regarding general...

Patients Underestimate Risks and Overestimate Benefits of Treatment

Patients underestimate the risks and overestimate the benefits of dental surgery and other medical...

Women with Diabetes Face Greater Oral Cancer Risk

Women with diabetes face a 13% higher risk of developing oral cancer and a...

Don’t Let Data Breaches Imperil Your HIPAA Liability

Facebook, Equifax, Target, Panera Bread, Home Depot… the list goes on and on and...

Non-Smokers With Precancerous Oral Lesions Face Increased Cancer Risks

Although tobacco use is still one of the strongest risk factors associated with mouth...

Five Factors Influence Dental Implant Fracture Rates

Today’s dental implants offer nearly universal success rates, though fractures do occur on very...

MicroRNA Offers Clues in Identifying Aggressive Oral Cancer

About 8,000 Americans die of oral cancer each year, according to the Columbia University...

Awareness Is the Key to Fighting Oral Cancer

April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month, and dentistrytoday.com will be celebrating the event with...

Combine Dental and Medical Procedures to Limit Anesthesia Exposure

Children who require both dental and non-dental medical procedures should have them completed during...