HealthDay News — Gum irritation, irritability, and drooling, but not fever, are the most frequent signs of primary tooth eruption, according to a meta-analysis published online February 18 in ...

The research protocol was approved by the Human Ethics Review Committee of the Faculty of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. For this 5-month, nonrandomized clinical trial, which ...

When your child is born, they have a full set of 20 primary teeth that grows in by the age of three. After that, your child’s permanent teeth push out the baby teeth throughout childhood until they're ...

New research indicates that a mother's hormone levels during pregnancy, particularly stress-related ones like cortisol, may influence the timing of a baby's first tooth eruption. Higher maternal ...

Did you know that cavity causing bacteria can be transmitted from the mother to the child even before the teeth erupt? Do you think your child is too young to need a dentist? Early childhood caries is ...

Our results showed that the type of erupted tooth did not influence teething disturbances. Only canine eruption led to significantly more loss of appetite in comparison to incisors and molars. This ...