A novel therapy holds real promise in changing the way dentists treat your cavities—they'd get the cavities to fill themselves. As the Guardian reports, researchers at King's College London found that ...

It’s the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear: a cavity. (Not to be dramatic or anything.) Sure, it's not exactly deadly, but cavity treatment is potentially pricey, and sitting in the dentist’s chair ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- How do you like going to the dentist to have cavities filled and drilled? Not so much? Imagine being a young child with cavities -- even worse! As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez ...

Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth to regenerate in about a month, ...

Walking into a dentist’s office could be less of a frightening thing in the future if scientists Kyle Vining, of Harvard, and Adam Celiz, of the British University of Nottingham, have anything to do ...

Walking into a dentist’s office could be less of a frightening thing in the future if scientists Kyle Vining of Harvard and Adam Celiz of the British University of Nottingham have anything to do with ...

NEW ORLEANS - Dental fillings are getting stronger and less noticeable than the old metal cavity fillings. Now there is a new study to test the latest one on the market and the dentist is looking for ...

Getting a filling isn't always the end of a tooth's cavity problems. Sometimes, bacteria is able to get down between the filling and the surface of the tooth, causing another cavity to occur. A new ...