Vanessa Salinas has opened Hollister's first dental hygienist practice, Vibrant Smiles, offering affordable and personalized dental care.

The city of Hollister, Calif., recently welcomed its first dental hygiene practice, KSBW reported Nov. 3. Vanessa Salinas, a registered dental hygienist in alternative practice, opened Vibrant Smiles ...

With smart toothbrushes, laser and water flossers, cavities are history. Dentists from across the country tell you how tech ...

Del Mar provides residents with free services while offering students hands-on experience to complete the clinical hours ...

For people living with diabetes, caring for their gums can be just as important as managing blood sugar. Research has shown ...

Herbs have been widely used for decades in the world of Ayurveda , and traditional medicine. Age-long traditions have lauded ...

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...

As more young people identify as transgender, a fight has re-emerged over therapy that questions their gender identities. By Amy Harmon Since at least a decade ago, a rare consensus has prevailed on a ...

Nobody really looks forward to going to the dentist. Between the sounds, the drills, and the nerves, it’s one of those appointments many of us dread. But one dental office has discovered the ultimate ...

Oral diseases driven by a dysbiotic dental plaque biofilm are preventable, say key voices in oral health. As dental plaque biofilm-driven oral diseases continue to place avoidable burdens on patients ...

There’s a quiet crisis in how we think about psychotherapy. Over the past few decades, we’ve gotten very good at packaging therapies into neat boxes—cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical ...

There are numerous ways in which women's bodies change as we get older. When we go through the perimenopause and then menopause, classic symptoms like hot flushes and mood swings probably come to mind ...