WASHINGTON – Dental care cannot be left out of the national discussion on health, experts told lawmakers Tuesday in a House hearing prompted by last month's preventable death of a Maryland boy from an ...

Q: What causes an abscessed tooth? A: In the center of each tooth is a small chamber called a pulp chamber. It's filled with a soft tissue made up of blood vessels and nerves that is called the pulp.

The death of a Prince George's County boy this week from an infection that started with an abscessed tooth has spurred lawmakers to demand better dental care for poor children and has prompted a ...

The death of Deamonte Driver shocked the country. Deamonte, a 12-year-old from suburban Prince George's County, Maryland, died in February 2007 when bacteria from an abscessed tooth spread to his ...

FOR THE RECORD (Published Thursday, August 21, 2014) – Jessica Hoffman was sentenced to serve five years’ probation in a 2012 arrest in Northampton County. Her sentence was incorrect in a story in the ...

Imaging helped lead to the diagnosis and treatment of a 2-year-old girl who developed the life-threatening condition orbital cellulitis due to a dental abscess. The details were published on April 9 ...