Although progress in women’s pay and participation in the workforce has been significant, women remain a minority in dentistry.

When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded Medicaid coverage to adults with incomes below 138% of the federal poverty level, 17 states and the District of Columbia included the optional adult dental benefit (beyond emergency services) in…

With a Republican president and majorities in both the House and Senate, conservative lawmakers hope to reduce federal spending on Medicaid and roll back some essential benefits in health plans that currently qualify for consumer tax…

An ongoing discussion in health care reform is the difference between access to care and utilization of care.

One of the top agenda items for the new Republican administration is repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

In a good news/bad news scenario, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report finds the proportion of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes declined from 20.9% in 2005 to 15.1% in 2015.

Researchers now better understand how quickly gingivitis may develop in pregnant women.

Last year, the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) made headlines with a report projecting that, by 2025, all states will experience a shortage in dentists.

Combined with an overall tightening in lending practices, this burden of debt has restricted graduates' ability to obtain credit for starting their own offices.

Tooth decay is the most common preventable childhood disease, with 21% of children ages 6 to 11 and 58% of adolescents ages 12 to 19 having caries in their permanent teeth.