Getting a filling at the dentist can be painful, expensive and generally miserable. A crown or a root canal is even worse.

Dentistry has taken the same approach to tooth decay — filling cavities — for decades, but new techniques for rebuilding teeth from the inside out could transform the profession over the next decade.

Your next filling may do a little more to keep your teeth healthy. Researchers at the University of Maryland have created the first cavity-fillers also kill bacteria and re-grow layers of tooth, the ...

Dear Dr. Reitz: My 81-year-old father’s dentist is using silver amalgam to fill his cavities. I thought silver amalgam was no longer used by dentists because it poses a health risk. Should my father ...

The timing for eating after a dental filling depends on the filling material. Composite fillings allow you to eat immediately once the numbness fades, while amalgam fillings require waiting up to 24 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dental therapist Sarah Chagnon treats a patient at the Swinomish Dental Clinic in La Conner, Wash., as part of a school-based ...

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 ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Q: Should I be worried that, a month after a filling, I have sensitivity in the jaw - shooting into my collarbone - and a headache? The dentist checked ...

During a game of Red Rover when she was 16 years old, Rochelle "Roz" Siuvuq Ferry lost a front tooth. Ferry, who is Inupiaq, remembers having to get on a plane to get from her remote Alaskan village ...