What it is: A technique for predicting, from the composition of people’s saliva, their susceptibility to tooth decay. The market: The full extent of the market for the testing technique is unknown, ...

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Giving patients a test for diabetes when they are in a dentist’s chair could help find more cases of the disease, academics have found. Estimates suggest that around 1.3 million people in the UK have ...

Our genes may stave off a trip to the dentist. A new study in which researchers tracked dental patients for 16 years, looking for gum disease and tooth loss, found that people with healthy mouths who ...