Now this was a tough decision to swallow. A Staten Island man who got a tooth-drill bit embedded in his lung after he accidentally inhaled it during a dental procedure won a $430,000 civil judgment — ...

Lasers that can cut gum, tooth and bone are ending the despotic rule of the turbine dental drill. Allen Helfer is no sadist, but he does perform root canals on his dental patients without using ...

TOOTHY GRIN: Robert Garelick, a Long Island dentist, sports a goofy grin on his face as he is led away by cops in Suffolk County yesterday. Victor Alcorn It wasn’t the drill that was buzzing — it was ...

CLEVELAND—A trip to the dentist isn’t something people usually look forward to. “Because of all the drilling and injections, it’s not fun,” acknowledged Suchitra Nelson, an associate dean and ...

A team of mechanical engineering students from Johns Hopkins University is working with a Florida dentist to develop a device that aims to make dental procedures less daunting for many patients. Check ...

This is not a drill. Johns Hopkins University students and a dentist are developing an apparatus that dulls the unmistakable high-pitched, anxiety-inducing whir of a dental handpiece when its working ...

WEBVTT KERRY CAVANAUGH SHOWS US HOW IT WORKS IN TONIGHT'S MEDICAL ALERT. >> SHE IS ALL SMILES AS SHE SETTLES INTO THE DENTAL CHAIR. HE IS FILLING THE CAVITY IN 30 SECONDS WITHOUT A NEEDLE OR A DRILL.

At first, Laura Bienenfeld didn't pay much attention to the sharp pain she felt around the filling in one of her back teeth when she bit down on really hot or cold foods. Even though she's a dentist ...

Bloomington Bird Lady: “Subject: Kids and visits to the doctor. “My dental visits as a child always meant fillings, as we didn’t have fluoride back then. If only our dentist had had the present-day, ...

Imaging assisted in the diagnosis and removal of a dental drill head from the airway of a 76-year-old patient who aspirated the object during a procedure, according to a case report recently published ...

For the estimated ten percent of Americans with dental phobia, research suggests therapy and other options may help. (Michael Probst/AP) When I arrived at the dentist's office for my implant procedure ...