Welcome to a time so long ago that people with no dental insurance still could get their teeth drilled, and perhaps filled. Flint-wielding specialists performed the work between 9,000 and 7,500 years ...

If you dread going to the dentist, be thankful you didn't live in the Stone Age. Roughly 8,000 years before Novocaine and some 7,300 years before they could even swig whiskey to dull the pain, ...

Researchers in the UK have discovered a pain-free way of tackling dental decay that reverses the damage of acid attack and rebuilds teeth as new. The pioneering treatment promises to transform the ...

(CBS) What if your cavities could go away painlessly, with only the application of a gel. That's right - no drill, no needles. That tantalizing possibility is now being explored by French scientists, ...

How Does Air Abrasion Work? During air abrasion, an instrument that works like a mini sandblaster is used to spray away decay. During air abrasion, a fine stream of particles is aimed at the stained ...

Open wide, this won’t hurt a bit. That might actually be true if the dentist’s drill is replaced by a promising low-powered laser that can prompt stem cells to make damaged hard tissue in teeth grow ...

The no-anesthetic, teeth-drilling scene in “Marathon Man” made dentists seem scary. Now another Nazi-hunting film may do the same for gynecologists. “The Debt” is a taut thriller about three Israeli ...