Once literally the gold standard for dental restorations, the precious metal has largely been replaced by ceramics as the material of choice for most dentists. The soaring cost of gold combined with ...

Little has been published on the chemical exposures and risks of dental restorative materials other than from dental amalgam and composite resins. Here we provide the first exposure and risk ...

Gold-containing dental implants may have caused an allergic reaction in a 64-year-old woman's mouth that developed into the chronic inflammatory disease oral lichen planus. The case report was ...

Examples for the use of gold in dental applications date back to the Etruscans in the seventh century BC. The Etruscans used gold wire to hold in place alternative teeth, usually taken from a cow or ...

Dear Ann Landers: I must take issue with the statement attributed to the Funeral and Memorial Societies of America about the value of gold teeth. They said, “Dental gold has very little commercial ...

University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed a method to process enable same-day 3D printing of dental restorations made of zirconia. University of Texas at Dallas researchers have ...

Using data from the 2001 to 2004 US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) on the number and placement of tooth restorations in adults, we quantified daily doses due to leaching of ...