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 ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5)-- Some dental experts are raising concerns patients are being encouraged to pull healthy teeth and replace them with dental implants, sometimes to boost profits. Recent ...

My last visit to a dentist office was about four years ago when I had a cavity filled and, later, my wisdom teeth pulled. I missed about a week of work and it took my mouth another month to feel ...

There’s no confidence boost quite like having a flawless, megawatt smile. Yet the older we get, the harder (and more expensive!) it becomes to maintain those pearly whites. Between pricey whitening ...

Dentists are pulling ‘healthy’ and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn November 9, 2024 by Brett Kelman and Anna Werner / KFF Health News and CBS News ... Becky Carroll was missing a ...