Dr Richard Marques from Wimpole Street Dental, explained to the Independent how the bacteria that cause tooth decay can be transferred by a kiss from an adult's mouth to a baby's mouth – and then ...

More than half of U.S. children aged between 6 and 9 have had a cavity in at least one of their baby teeth, according to the ... in a statement. The treatment is easy to apply and simply involves ...

Almost half of children haven’t visited a dentist by the age of three, a survey shows. Only 45 per cent of parents surveyed said they had taken or planned to take their child to a dentist by the ...

In 2009 the Designed to Smile scheme was introduced in nurseries and schools in some of the most deprived communities, after figures showed half of under-fives had tooth decay in Wales.

Tran Cao Binh, president of the Vietnam Odonto-Stomatology Association, raised the alarm on the high rate of permanent tooth decay among children, attributing this to inadequate oral hygiene and ...