The number of children aged four and under being hospitalised for tooth extractions has risen by almost a quarter in the last decade, new figures have revealed. There were 9,206 extractions among this ...

If you hear lots of ones, twos and threes you can relax, but fours or higher could be a sign of bone loss or periodontal disease NO ONE likes the dentist. Fact. You can’t talk, most of the time you ...

Thousands of Britons are having teeth needlessly pulled out, it was claimed yesterday. The number of extractions has soared by 30 per cent in four years, according to figures obtained by the Liberal ...

Adults have 32 teeth but after the removal of wisdom teeth, that number falls to 28 if all are extracted. However, people with tooth decay are likely to have even fewer teeth. The Australian Institute ...

Research found people who had lost five or more teeth by the age of 65 were also more likely to suffer from other serious health issues TOOTH loss could predict when you will die, according to new ...

Thousands of children were admitted to hospital with tooth decay last year amid a surge in extractions. New figures from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) show there were 47,581 ...

The number one reason for primary school-aged children being admitted to hospital is to have multiple teeth taken out, newly released figures show. The number of children aged from five to nine ...

The state of children's teeth in Scotland has improved further, with nearly three quarters of P1 pupils showing no obvious signs of decay. But an annual survey found, external poor dental health was ...

THE number of children under the age of 10 needing hospital treatment because of tooth decay is twice as high as the number needing help for a broken arm, according to new analysis. While arm ...

NO ONE likes the dentist. Fact. You can't talk, most of the time you are dribbling like a fool, and if it's a particularly long procedure the jaw ache can be agonising. There are two reasons doctors ...