Q: I have worked in dentistry all my adult life. One dentist I worked for instructed patients after extractions to bite on a wet tea bag if bleeding continued. He told them to use a plain old Lipton ...

You can be super cautious and still manage to graze your fingertip instead of that bell pepper on your cutting board—then you’re faced with how to stop a cut from bleeding all over your meal prep. It ...

Perhaps it’s the tiny bit of toilet paper stuck to blood on your face, but there is something about cutting yourself shaving that is lacking in dignity. By now, shouldn’t you have mastered a grooming ...

Smoking may increase the risk of dry socket after a tooth extraction, as it can delay the healing process and may dislodge a blood clot from the extraction site. Dry socket, or alveolar osteitis, is a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — This month, EMS and surgeons nationwide are stressing what bystanders can do during an emergency that could keep someone from bleeding to death. “I cannot emphasize strongly enough how ...