The microbes that inhabit the human mouth have a lot to say about one's general health. That's part of the motivation behind a massive new push to catalog these oral bacteria. Trisha Gura finds ...

As a portal into the body’s respiratory and digestive tracts, the mouth is also a window into your overall health. Here are some of the many conditions that can affect the human mouth.

In his book Micro-Organisms of the Human Mouth, he detailed the proposed relationship and called for “systematic cleansing of the oral cavity and the teeth, and the proper and intelligent use of ...

Two more cases of suspected foot-and-mouth in humans have proved negative, it emerged today. The Public Health Laboratory Service said eight of the 13 samples being investigated had now tested ...

They're actually the longest teeth in the human mouth. So what are these long, sharp teeth doing among our short, stubby ones? Well, contrary to popular belief, it's not for tearing and ripping meat.

Stem cells from a human’s mouth were used in the process. Seeing a rat scurry by would send many people running away screaming, but researchers at Israel's Technion institute of technology were ...