Table 1 shows the prevalence of current, former, and non-smokers by study variables among adults aged 20-39 years. The overall percentage of current smokers was 29.6% of the study population (55.3% ...

Teeth are tattletales: They testify about a person’s health, their diet, and now smoking. Researchers from Northumbria University in Newcastle, England, have revealed evidence that smoking -- even if ...

Losing a tooth as a child is often an exciting but slightly nerve-wracking episode that rarely causes concern, especially when it happens naturally. However, losing teeth as an adult is a different ...

Wisdom teeth are the last set of molars that usually appear in late teens or early twenties. For some people, they grow in ...

Dry socket, clinically termed alveolar osteitis, is a common complication following tooth extractions, particularly of the mandibular third molars. Its occurrence, characterised by the premature loss ...

A healthy 45-year-old man experienced respiratory failure due to a giant life-threatening lung abscess caused by oral bacteria stemming from a wisdom tooth extraction. The case report was published in ...

Databases of the National Nutrition Survey (NNS) and the Survey of Dental Diseases (SDD) from 1999 were obtained from the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare with permission for analytical use. The ...