A new study challenges the belief that pulling wisdom teeth has a negative effect on taste. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine found that extraction not only can ...

Last fall, Summer Mills awoke in the middle of the night in excruciating pain. Her upper canine tooth was throbbing, and eventually, she couldn’t take the pain anymore. “Four o’clock in the morning, I ...

Your dentist has just advised you to have your wisdom teeth removed, even though they are not causing any problems. Is this a word to the wise, or jumping the, er, gum? Wisdom teeth, of course, are ...

PITTSFIELD — We are losing a lot of really good teeth. "We" is our community of lower-income adults and children who depend on a broken Medicaid dental care system that short-changes their oral health ...