In a couple of years, Tam Pham-Dao plans to lean over patients, ask them to open their mouths and show their pearly whites.

Mesa Community College's Dental Hygiene program is looking for patients who have not received dental hygiene care in the past three years or longer to receive complimentary oral health screenings.

A.T. Still University will host its sixth annual Community Health & Wellness Day April 20 at the Chandler CARE Center, 777 E. Galveston St.

With the holidays over, students are back in college. Parents may have noticed that their child has lost weight, gained weight, or changed their daily hygiene habits after a semester at college. Parents may have sent their child to the dentist during the holidays, and may have found their child came back with more cavities than before college.

Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert medical centers will provide free, preventative dental care and oral hygiene education to more than 3,000 underserved children across the East Valley.

Mesa Community College graduate Nicole Turner was crowned Miss Arizona 2007 on Saturday night in Gilbert and will represent the state in the Miss America pageant this January.

There’s something missing from our current debate about national health care. Too few are talking about actual health! We lament the red tape, the gaps in insurance coverage and the costs that seem to escalate daily. But we often forget the central point: Our own individual health and well-being. How can Americans be healthier, feel better and live longer?

Tooth decay in children ages 2 through 5 is on the rise, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At one point or another, most children, and even adults, make monthly trips to the orthodontist. It's no doubt that people not only choose their orthodontist because of their exceptional dental skills, but because of their stellar customer service.

There’s something missing from our current debate about national health care. Too few are talking about actual health. We lament the red tape, the gaps in insurance coverage and the costs that seem to escalate daily. But we often forget the central point: Our own individual health and well being. How can Americans be healthier, feel better and live longer?

Phillip Hendrix is filling a niche market for the elderly, bedridden and those afraid of dentist’s offices.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dogs and cats can't brush, spit, gargle or floss on their own. So owners who want to avoid bad pet breath will need to lend a hand.

Zach Marvel’s balloon bug eyes — a hat made by a clown at the Stepping Stones mentoring program’s Saturday Christmas party — were akin to his own as he spoke to his new mentor from underneath.