At the very minimum, you should be rinsing your mouth guard with lukewarm water and brushing it gently once a day. All the experts I spoke to said a standard drugstore toothbrush will do; just make ...

If you ever went through a braces phase, I feel for you. There was the rule of staying away from caramel, the riskiness of playing contact sports, and the difficulty of getting little bits of food out ...

Crooked teeth, gaps, or other dental concerns may require braces for proper alignment. Braces consist of brackets attached to the teeth, connected by wires or sometimes elastic bands. They not only ...

Have you been wearing your retainer? It's a question countless parents ask of their children post-braces. Now Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researchers are getting serious ...

Align Technology, Inc. has announced the launch of Vivera retainers -- clear retainers made from the same technology as Invisalign aligners. These subscription-based retainers will be delivered to ...

Participants were randomly assigned to receive either a Hawley retainer (HR) or a clear overlay retainer (COR). The HR was composed of a 2 mm-thick acrylic resin base plate, one-arm clasps with 0.9 mm ...

Ensuring patient compliance is tricky after any dental procedure, but it is especially difficult with patients who are starting long-term retainer use after their braces come off. Now a new study on ...