It's not hard to perform the basics of a healthy dental routine, but patients still have a hard time with one step in particular. When it comes to flossing, people often just aren't doing it — or they ...

Although teeth can be cleaned by brushing, it is not effective in reaching the adjacent tooth surfaces - adopting a tooth-cleaning technique called flossing can be used for this instead. This ...

The easiest way to start your day off right is with a dental routine that leaves your mouth feeling fresh, clean and healthy. But it's not so easy to do everything you need to do in the right order ...

In a recent experiment that sounds more sci-fi than science class, researchers have successfully developed a novel vaccine platform that uses ordinary dental floss embedded with tiny dissolvable ...

Imagine getting your next flu shot not through a syringe, but with something as familiar as flossing your teeth. A new proof-of-concept study led by Harvinder Singh Gill, a professor of nanomedicine ...

Flu shot season is around the corner, and while injections remain the most common form of vaccination, scientists are working hard to find other ways to deliver inoculations that don’t involve shoving ...

Dileep Sharma receives funding from the Dental Council of NSW, International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research, Australian government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ...

Prepare for a new flossophy. Dental floss has long been used to remove food particles, plaque and bacteria that a toothbrush can’t reach. Now, university researchers have demonstrated a new purpose ...

Dental floss could eventually do much more than improve oral hygiene. A new study led by Texas Tech University and the University of North Carolina suggests that the thin filament could eventually ...

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