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Do you own a tongue scraper? How about interdental brushes? I didn't either before my appointment at RW Perio, a London-based specialist gum clinic. I was there to try out its £250 Polish & Perfect ...

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We’ve all had to become a little more resourceful in the time of social distancing. From making bread and plunging toilets to cutting hair and giving manicures, a lot of things we once outsourced to ...

Electric toothbrushes clean more effectively than manual ones, remove plaque better, and may lower the risk of gum disease. Learn their benefits and drawbacks.

The advice from dental experts for keeping your teeth clean sounds simple enough: Brush twice a day and floss. But choosing among the many products available to help you do this can be daunting.

With age comes a greater risk that things will go wrong with your teeth. Among adults, procedures such as filling cavities tend to peak in your early to mid-50s, according to the Health Policy ...

Most of us take it for granted that December should be a month for festive cheer, not wailing and gnashing of teeth. So I went for my semiannual dental cleaning with expectations that it would be ...