Gold-containing dental implants may have caused an allergic reaction in a 64-year-old woman's mouth that developed into the chronic inflammatory disease oral lichen planus. The case report was ...

Shortly after U.S. Olympic hockey hero Jack Hughes had his teeth knocked out, he scored the decisive goal in overtime to ...

Cremation is growing in popularity in the United States. In 2015, 48.6 percent of Americans who died were cremated, according to the Cremation Association of North America (CANA). That number is ...

Mini dental implants use a one-piece screw measuring less than 3 millimeters wide, unlike larger two-piece traditional implants. They can replace teeth or help to stabilize dentures. Mini implants may ...

It’s rare to have problems with dental implants. However, just like with any surgery, there are always some risks. And while implants have a high success rate, it’s possible they may fail. Here are ...

Jack Hughes lost some teeth leading USA Hockey to the gold medal against Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics. But, what ...

An endosteal implant is a type of dental implant that’s put in your jawbone as an artificial root to hold a replacement tooth. Dental implants are usually placed when someone has lost a tooth.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo illustration by Oona Zenda of KFF Health News. Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked.

People with tooth loss or older adults can use dental implants to replace natural teeth. Despite a minor complication risk and higher upfront cost, implants often outlast alternative solutions.

Charlie Sheen has lost many of his teeth, replaced them with gold implants and wears an apparatus in public so that no one will notice. Kacey Jordan, the porn star who partied with Sheen before he ...

Millions of people around the world are weighing a question that would have seemed unusual just a decade ago: should they ...