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Oral health care is a market with an optimistic outlook, reflecting increasing worldwide awareness of the importance of maintaining healthy oral hygiene and fresh and pleasant breath, as well as growth in dental tourism and governmental promotion of awareness about dental diseases in emerging economies. Despite the size of the market and its expected growth,…

Current therapies for gum disease involve cleaning pathogenic bacteria away from the root of a patient’s teeth. But the bad bacteria always return after approximately three months, necessitating long-term management of the disease and consistent maintenance. Dr. Ning Yu, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Forsyth Institute, is working on a better treatment for periodontitis.…

Thank you to everyone who joined us for An Evening with Forsyth! We enjoyed sharing with you updates on the science, outreach, and education taking place at the Forsyth Institute. If you’d like to watch the entire program, you can do so via this link, with the Access Passcode: 2zQb?G4& If you’d like to support…

The COVID-19 pandemic left tens of thousands of children in Massachusetts without access to school-based dental care. When schools returned to in-person learning, many restrictions were in place that limited visitors and service available at the school. The ForsythKids team created an innovative medical tent model to allow the team to provide care where children…

The Forsyth Institute has entered into a strategic collaboration with Sherlock Biosciences, an Engineering Biology company dedicated to making diagnostic testing better, faster and more affordable. The partnership is focused on research, development, and commercialization of products and services for detection of human biomarkers in the oral cavity and other oral health applications. The oral…

In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from 41 institutions in 13 countries collaborated to reconstruct the oral microbiomes of Neanderthals, primates, and humans, including the oldest oral microbiome ever sequenced from a 100,000-year-old Neanderthal. Scientists analyzed fossilized dental plaque of humans and Neanderthals and compared it to plaque…

In a longitudinal study published earlier this month in the Journal of the American Dental Association, researchers analyzed untreated decay in a cohort of nearly 7,000 children enrolled in the ForsythKids preventive dentistry program. Over the course of six years, the percentage of children with untreated cavities in the program decreased from 39 to 19…

The Forsyth Institute is pleased to offer a full range of orthodontic services through our in-house dental clinic, the Forsyth Faculty Associates, located in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Tingxi Wu, director of orthodontic and craniofacial development research at Forsyth, is now accepting patients through Forsyth Faculty Associates. In additional to orthodontic…

People with periodontitis are at higher risk of experiencing major cardiovascular events, according to new research from Forsyth Institute and Harvard University scientists and colleagues. In a longitudinal study published recently in the Journal of Periodontology, Dr. Thomas Van Dyke, Senior Member of Staff at Forsyth, Dr. Ahmed Tawakol of Massachusetts General Hospital, and their…

In diseases characterized by bone loss—such as periodontitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoporosis—there is a lot that scientists still don’t understand. What is the role of the immune response in the process? What happens to the regulatory mechanisms that protect bone? In a paper published recently in Scientific Reports, researchers from the Forsyth Institute and the…