Oral vaccination isn’t new. Vaccines to protect against rotavirus — which causes diarrheal disease — are given to infants as ...

Dental floss is a thread, usually nylon, which is also available as a tape. You use it to clean the crevices in between your teeth, where the bristles of your brush can't get to.

One study review in 2011 did credit floss with a slight reduction in gum inflammation — which can sometimes develop over time into full-fledged gum disease. However, the reviewers ranked the ...

As we’ve mentioned before, dental floss has many practical uses beyond getting crud out from between your teeth. You can use it as thread, a stand-in for picture-hanging wire, and to support ...

Dr Agnihotri suggested the following steps to clean effectively around the braces. Take a 12-18 inches long piece of dental floss. Thread a piece of floss under the archwire of the braces.

A host of companies are disrupting the dental industry with everything from at-home orthodontic impressions to coconut-flavoured dental floss in Instagram-worthy packaging to a $290 toothbrush ...

Dental floss has also helped a few prisoners escape from jail. One was a prisoner in Houston, Texas, and another one was an Italian Mafioso called Vincenzo Curcio.