A number of organizations offer financial assistants for students obtaining training to be a dental hygienist. One of the more prominent ones is The American Dental Association (ADA), which offers scholarships for aspiring dental hygienists through its Allied Dental Student …

While diabetes can wreak havoc on the whole body, it can also cause major oral health problems. This problem is particularly severe when blood sugar levels are poorly controlled. Uncontrolled diabetes weakens white blood cells—the body’s main defense against bacterial …

The existence of jawbreakers alone shows that human teeth are capable of taking an astonishing amount of punishment. Unlike regular bones, teeth are composed of no living cells and therefore cannot regenerate. For dentists, understanding how it is that our …