Dental plaque is inevitable. Whenever you eat sugary or starchy foods, they mix with bacteria in your mouth and form a fuzzy coating on your teeth, aka plaque. If you brush regularly, dental plaque ...

Dr. Soumaya Zinet told Newsweek the "root cause" of gum disease and a simple way to prevent the incurable condition.

Susan Sperling, 75, had no history of heart disease, so when she started having chest pains that came and went, she didn’t think much of it. “If I would stop walking, it would stop; so I guess I ...

Plaque can be quite dangerous to one's smile, especially if it is left to evolve into something worse, tartar! Smiles are very important in the way people interact with each other. Greeting someone ...

Surgeons at Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Veterans Affairs medical center in West Haven recently performed a new, less risky procedure to remove plaque from the carotid arteries, which supply blood ...

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