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 ...

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 ...

The probe uses the Diagnodent's laser fluorescence technology to differentiate between calculus and healthy tissue. Once the difference is detected, it makes a sound and displays a numerical readout.

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 ...

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, ...