Oil pulling, which involves swishing oil around in the mouth and spitting it out, is an ancient Ayurvedic practice that's getting a lot of traction on social media. The technique is believed to help ...

Oil pulling—the practice of swishing oil around your mouth as a treatment for teeth—has blown up on social media sites like TikTok, and has been around for centuries, but little research has been done ...

Put oil in your mouth, swish, swish, swish — and spit it out. One of the big drawbacks to oil pulling is how long you have to do it for. For optimal results, oil pulling should be done for about 15 to ...

A new study challenges the belief that pulling wisdom teeth has a negative effect on taste. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine found that extraction not only can ...

Your dentist has just advised you to have your wisdom teeth removed, even though they are not causing any problems. Is this a word to the wise, or jumping the, er, gum? Wisdom teeth, of course, are ...

Seven years to visit the dentist was simply too long to wait for Linda Colla, who was forced to pull out her own teeth due to the pain. Colla, 75, began experiencing problems with gum disease and her ...

PITTSFIELD — We are losing a lot of really good teeth. "We" is our community of lower-income adults and children who depend on a broken Medicaid dental care system that short-changes their oral health ...