Sugary food and sweet packets should carry warnings

Help improve children’s oral health, doctors say. The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for cigarette-style health warnings on the packaging of sugary foods that are aimed at children to curb the high children’s teeth extractions being experienced in dental offices around the country. Dentists are dismayed that more than 34,000 children aged nine years […]

Chewing just one additional piece of sugar free gum each day could save billions worldwide on dental expenditures from treating tooth decay, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Dentistry on 2 April, 2017. The data is significant given tooth decay and oral diseases rank fourth among the most expensive global […]