A dental dam is a thin and flexible sheet made from latex or polyurethane used to protect against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) during oral sex. They are usually rectangular in shape, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two women in bed Light Field Studios/Shutterstock For those of us lucky enough to get sex ed in school, you may have experienced ...

For those of us lucky enough to get sex ed in school, you may have experienced putting a condom on a banana, but it’s unlikely dental dams were ever mentioned, let alone demonstrated. In case you ...

Similar to condoms, dental dams prevent the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, they do not ...