Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This is part two of a three-part series on the critical role quality ...

Until the 18th century if you needed a tooth pulled you went to the blacksmith or barber who would yank it out – or try to – with a pair of pliers. Things have moved on considerably since then, but ...

Medical historian Richard Barnett traces the history of dentistry in his new book. He says that prior to the 18th century, the profession was often practiced by charlatans with "big muscles." This is ...

Medical historian Richard Barnett traces the history of dentistry in his new book. He says that prior to the 18th century, the profession was often practices by charlatans with "big muscles." His book ...

00:01, Fri, Mar 20, 2015 Updated: 10:07, Fri, Apr 10, 2015 For our ancestors however a bad case of toothache could be precisely that. The profession was a back-street horror show for hundreds of years ...

The OHSU Dental Museum is a dental-phobe's nightmare: Get a load of this tooth yanker from the Civil War. Here's a kit of tools with nasty points. The idea of is better than the reality -- you can't ...

Dr. Jarrett L. Manning owner of JLM Dental Studio in Atlanta, Georgia wants to help young girls enter into the field of dentistry. In celebration of Women's History Month and National Dentist Day, ...