The microbes that inhabit the human mouth have a lot to say about one's general health. That's part of the motivation behind a massive new push to catalog these oral bacteria. Trisha Gura finds ...

Welcome to the human mouth, where teeth chew food into smaller pieces and saliva begins to break it down. Saliva contains digestive enzymes, special molecules that speed up the breaking down of food.

Those millions of bacteria, fungi and viruses interacting in your mouth are what health care providers call the oral microbiome. Bacino is one of many researchers and clinicians in the School of ...

Cases of mouth cancer have reached a record high in England and Scotland, a new report shows. Last year, there were more than ...

Although there have been dozens of cases of human foot-and-mouth reported worldwide, the only previous UK case happened in 1966 in Northumberland. A 35-year-old man, Bobby Brewis, a farm machinery ...