WASHINGTON — Scientists have now proved what patients in dentists' chairs have often thought: Drilling teeth is downright prehistoric. Dentists drilled nearly perfect tiny holes in the teeth of live ...

With a growing older population, increasing demand for cosmetic surgery, and improved 3D technologies, it's no surprise that a startup is focused on making it simpler, safer, and faster to do dental ...

Lasers for years have held out the promise of a painless replacement for the dreaded buzzing dental drill. Yet the drill, which dates to the 1800s, still remains the workhorse of the profession. Now a ...

A father and son pair of millionaire French dentists were sentenced to five and eight years, respectively, for drilling thousands of needless root canals into the teeth of hundreds of patients to ...