I remember the screeching of the drill, the smell of burnt flesh mixed with the sickening scent of blood, my blood. I remember the sympathetic face of the dental assistant who held the suction ...

as many children experience fear or pain from the traditional ‘drill and fill’ approach for cavities.” Related: These Five ...

A woman has said she was forced to pull out her teeth after waiting nearly seven years for an NHS dentist appointment. Linda Colla, 76, began searching for a dentist when she moved to Nottingham ...

I remember thinking to myself, “how was I bored while people were drilling into my teeth?” Local anaesthesia (the type that ...

so it has to be removed to fix the tooth. The dentist starts drilling into the crown. Crowns are coverings often made of porcelain, resins, or ceramics that are placed over a heavily damaged tooth ...

The dentist's drill ... take care of your teeth, how will we handle mortality? And that, in turn, impacts what we teach our children, both explicitly and implicitly. My childhood experience ...

Dear Eric: I will be 74 years old in a few months. Dental woes have been the bane of my existence. I have invested many thousands of dollars in my oral health. Nonetheless, I’m once again ...

PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS’: There was a point in time where my brother Joseph and I had 37 cavities between us. We were dumb kids. Our dentist was a kindly ... millions of fragile young teeth were spared ...