A leading clinical professor has issued a “wake-up” call to Japan’s health and education ministries to make radical reforms to the teaching and practice of dentistry, warning that without reform, the ...

Mykyta Mykhailov arrived in Japan last May and now lives in Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture. In June this year, the 25-year-old landed a job as a dental assistant, a position that doesn't require a ...

The Great East Japan Earthquake was one of the deadliest natural disasters in the country's history. Nine years on, the remains of victims are still being identified. One dentist is playing a crucial ...

I was advised to go to a dentist while in Japan on this last trip because of their high quality and low prices. No complaints with the dentistry (though I’m no expert) and a regular visit which ...

STORY: How should a dentist react if a child does this.....this...or this? This humanoid robot is helping to train pediatric dentists in Japan by simulating a child's ...

A Japanese team is proposing that 100% of the country's dental records be digitized and stored using cloud computing. This is to ensure that dental records cannot be lost -- a problem that has plagued ...

A shark’s menacing teeth can scare anyone out of the water — but one aspect of some sharks' existence may be worth emulating: their ability to regrow teeth. An experimental medicine in Japan that ...

Japan will begin allowing dentists to take nose and throat swab samples to test patients for the novel coronavirus, according to The Japan Times. Japan currently conducts about 9,000 polymerase chain ...

Mikako Hayashi, Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Endodontology at Osaka University, says that Japan’s health insurance scheme needs urgent change from one where dentists are rewarded for ...