Photo illustration by Oona Zenda of KFF Health News. Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with lips pressed closed. Her dentist offered to fix ...

“Neighbors” once carried a story about Dr. David Fihn, Detroit Lakes, Minn., who died in May 2020; he was a dentist who among other things went on Rotary Club-sponsored overseas trips to give free ...

People from the older generation will recall that, back in the day, extracting a tooth was a rite of passage in its own right. Back then, not many of us were taken to the dentist, meaning children's ...

My family dentist, who is now retired, is adamant that these national chain dental places are doing unnecessary dentures and implants for teeth that could be saved. It's disgusting, and they should be ...