For decades, oral health care has mainly focused on preventing cavities and gum disease. However, scientific research has ...

Programs delivering fluoride varnish in schools significantly reduce cavities in children. That is a key finding of our recently published study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Fluoride varnish, easily and quickly applied to a child’s teeth, is an affordable and effective way to help prevent cavities.

Objective: Human papillomavirus (HPV) in the oral cavity or oropharynx is associated with an increased risk of laryngeal papillomatosis, head and neck cancer, and cervical and other genital cancers.

Disability-adjusted life years from human papillomavirus–related oral cavity and pharynx cancers in US men, 2017–2021. Authors: Harshank Vishnubhai Patel, Madison Laird, Michael Crone, Tjasa Hranjec, ...

Bait distribution aims to reduce the spread of the rabies virus AUGUSTA-- In cooperation with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC), officials from the U.S. Department of ...

Oral cancer is a type of cancer that affects the mouth (oral cavity) and parts of the throat (pharynx). In 2025, an estimated 59,660 people in the United States will develop oral cancer, and ...

In their models, those nurses who reported drinking one or more sugar-sweetened beverage daily (or five people per 100,000 population) had a 4.87 times higher risk of oral cavity cancer compared ...

The human oral cavity, comprising gums, cheeks, tongue, palate and teeth, is a highly diverse ecosystem harboring more than 700 bacterial species, including both cultivable and non-cultivable bacteria ...

The oral cavity serves as the gateway to both the respiratory and digestive tracts and shares structural features with the skin. Despite its specialized niches—labial and buccal mucosae, salivary ...

Benign tumors of the oral cavity can include warts, canker sores, thrush, ... such as human papillomavirus (HPV). Oral warts may also indicate an inherited condition called Cowden syndrome.

Oral cancer can occur in areas of the mouth and oropharynx, the section of the throat behind the oral cavity. Risk factors can include tobacco and alcohol use, human papillomavirus (HPV) infection ...