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Caring for Your Teeth and Gums

You should also see your dentist if you have pain in your teeth or mouth or bleeding, swollen gums. You can also ask your dentist about dental seal...

Oral Lichen Planus

Oral lichen planus is a long-lasting disease that affects your mouth with symptoms such as white patches, redness, and swelling. Your doctor can di...

What is Oral Thrush?

If you notice a strange white rash inside your mouth, you may have a condition called thrush. If you smoke or wear dentures that don’t fit right mi...

Preventing Tooth Decay

Tooth decay occurs when foods containing carbohydrates (sugars and starches), such as breads, cereals, milk, soda, fruits, cakes, or candy are left...

Temporomandibular Joint Disorders (TMD, TMJ)

Your temporomandibular joint is a hinge that connects your jaw to the temporal bones of your skull, which are in front of each ear. Your dentist ma...

Salivary Gland Problems

There are also several hundred minor salivary glands throughout the mouth and throat. Salivary gland infection, or sialadenitis. Bacterial infectio...

Plaque and Your Teeth

Gum tissue pulls away from the teeth, allowing the bacteria to destroy the underlying bone supporting the teeth. Periodontal disease, marked by inf...

Oral Cancer: Risks, Symptoms, and Prevention

As part of your routine dental exam, your dentist will conduct an oral cancer screening exam. Your dentist knows what a healthy mouth should look l...

Gingivitis and Periodontal Disease (Gum Disease)

Periodontitis, also generally called gum disease or periodontal disease, begins with bacterial growth in your mouth and may end -- if not properly ...

Geographic Tongue

Your dentist or doctor will ask about your symptoms and look at your mouth and tongue. You may not know that you have geographic tongue until your ...

Fissured Tongue

A fissured tongue may affect men slightly more often than women. It is not common to need a biopsy of a fissured tongue. If a fissured tongue cause...

Dental Health and Tooth Fillings

To treat a cavity your dentist will remove the decayed portion of the tooth and then 'fill' the area on the tooth where the decayed material was re...