By the time Wrigley began his business venture, Americans had grown accustomed to chewing gum sold as candy-coated balls or ...

“Our initial hypothesis was that the synthetic gums would have a lot more microplastics because the base is a type of plastic ...

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

You may have another culprit to consider: It’s gum, according to a new pilot study that found chewing just one piece can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics into saliva. The study is ...

If you smoke or use “smokeless” products such as chewing ... surgery to clean and repair deep under your gum or fix weak or damaged parts of the bone holding your teeth.

Chewing gum can shed ... the person chewed the piece of gum for four minutes, producing samples of saliva every 30 seconds, then a final mouth rinse with clean water, all of which got combined ...