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Which food contains the highest amount of tooth-damaging acid? Is an electric toothbrush more effective? How long does the result of at-home tooth whitening last? Test your knowledge and win a free dental hygiene treatment in our National Smile Month game!...

Candida albicans is a kind of fungus that likes to grow on the human body. It is best known as the main cause of yeast infections, and the dermatological illnesses that it causes, but it is also a problem for the mouth. In babies, it comes along as oral thrush, and can be treated only with strong medication. In adulthood, this fungus takes on many forms. Here is what to look out for....

Do we really know what our dentist can do for our health? Do we consider the half-year oral check-ups really necessary? Unfortunately, the answer for these questions is too often no. This might be the reason why 10% of British people feel so ashamed about their teeth that they do not even visit the dentist. 20% of them is afraid and avoids going to a dental clinic, while another 20% simply does not think it is necessary to get their teeth checked. These attitudes also affect children; 31% of British children younger than 10 years old ended up at an emergency dental clinic at least once in the past 5 years....

National Smile Month (2016 May 16 - 2016 June 16) begins, and this means that dentists everywhere are campaigning to improve the nation’s oral health. Some are giving away free consultations and discounts on treatments and are providing information for free at schools, work places and in public forums. To do our part, we are contributing a list of 10 things that we see all the time, without which the oral health of our patients would greatly improve....

The human body is an interconnected system of individual parts that can only function in unison. The problems of one part of the body will affect your overall health, which in turn affects the rest of your body, and cause problems that are unforeseeable. The mouth is one of the nexuses of the body: since food goes in there, so many nerves and veins go through there that the problems of the mouth are bound to affect the rest of the body. One unfortunate consequence of chronic conditions in the mouth is erectile dysfunction or ED....