Every year, this illness makes the rounds in schools, playgrounds and day cares. This time, some parents and pediatricians ...

Dentists explain what dry mouth is and share the best over the counter treatments. Plus, learn why drinking too much water ...

Mouth cancer can appear on the lips or anywhere in the mouth, including the tissues inside the cheeks, the tongue, and the gums. Mouth cancer may look like red, gray, or white patches of skin, thick ...

For years, scientists have linked smoking with conditions affecting vital organs of the body like the lungs, liver, and heart, but this habit also affects other, less discussed organs, like the tongue ...

An itchy mouth is a common, though sometimes alarming, symptom that many people experience. It can be caused by viral or fungal infections or allergies to food, pollen, latex, medications, and more.

In more recent decades, HPV has been shown as a risk factor for developing head and neck cancer. Head and neck cancer covers everything from throat, tongue, and tonsil cancer to laryngeal, mouth, and ...

Surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed new techniques for reconstructing the tongue during surgery for mouth cancer. The researchers found that the new ...

Steve Overend initially wondered if the stiffness in his jaw was a dental problem. At a family barbecue he noticed he couldn’t open his mouth wide enough to eat a bread roll. ‘It wasn’t painful, but ...