Dear Dr. Reitz: My dentist said I have gum disease with numbers of 5 and 6. Do you give numbers for all cases, and what do the numbers indicate? – Octavia, Reading Dear Octavia: I suspect the numbers ...

A U.K. company has designed a periodontal tool that it claims can alleviate the difficulty of achieving consistent measurements during periodontal tissue probing. Implantium has partnered with Iain ...

Professional Oral care dental mouth examination probe. Thinner profile probe for better access in tight spaces. Dental pick - safely dislodges food particles and plaque from between teeth and keep ...

When it comes to dental checkups, no one likes having their gums poked with the periodontal probe. Well, they may soon no longer have to, thanks to a gum-assessing toothbrush-shaped mini ultrasound ...

Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the U.K. are developing a dental probe, which is believed to be the first of its kind, that can quickly identify periodontal disease and its severity ...

It’s one of the worst parts of a dental checkup — painful probing with sharp instruments to look for signs of gum disease. The time-consuming and sometimes bloody process keeps patients fearful, ...

David Muscat, editor of the Maltese Dental Journal and president of the Dental Association of Malta, presenting a copy of The Dental Probe to David Andrew, consultant radiologist from Sheffield, on ...