While oral health is important to overall well-being, many dental problems start small and go unnoticed until they worsen.

"A tooth infection can kill you, but rarely," warns a Cleveland Clinic expert. Here's how to recognize the risks and how it can escalate.

A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess, is a collection of pus and bacteria that forms inside the tooth or gum. To reduce the risk of complications, a person should seek treatment for a tooth ...

Science reveals a hidden link between oral health and heart health. Understanding this connection could change how we view dental care forever.

WE are what we repeatedly do! Aristotle (384-322 BC). Who we are is a product or a compound effect of what we do every single day “habits”. Bad habits can cut you down as easily as good habits ...

Mouth and throat cancers are highly treatable if caught early, but they are often diagnosed at later stages because people ...

Good dental hygiene isn’t just about a glowing ... two-thirds of 160 people admitted with a heart attack had a severe gum infection. Nyree says: “In rare cases, inflammation from bacteria ...

She underwent laparotomy after failing to settle with a course of intravenous antibiotics and her appendix was found to have perforated into the uterus with abscess formation which had not discharged ...

Trading London for the natural beauty around Lisbon, his band Gum Takes Tooth – beloved in experimental circles for their crushing, airless EBM – would give way to something new, and perhaps more ...

Perforation is defined as a gross lesion with resulting free peritonitis, local abscess formation or establishment of a fistula. Resectability is influenced largely by the ability to survive a ...

This was further confirmed by oesophagogastroduodenoscopy. We report a case of an oesophageal pulmonary fistula in a patient with oesophageal carcinoma complicated by a lung abscess, and its ...