Teeth-Whitening Products Might Be Riskier Than We Thought
Those strips and gels you use to get your teeth as pearly white as possible may come with some previously unknown…
Instagram Helped Me Bond With My Dentist Dad by Recommending I Watch Gross Teeth Videos
I’m not entirely sure when it started or why. But at some point over the last couple of months, Instagram began showing…
Animal Teeth, Wood, and Porcelain: How the First Dentures Were Made
The human body is resilient, but not every part is replaceable internally. As a result, people are always on the…
Wisdom Tooth Surgery a Gateway to Teen Opioid Addiction, Study Finds
A common rite of passage—having your wisdom teeth pulled—might be raising the risk of teens and young adults becoming…
Workers Found a Thousand Human Teeth in an Old Building's Wall, and This Isn't the First Time
It’s not unusual for construction workers to find historical objects inside of walls. But the team renovating the T.B.…
Colgate's AI Toothbrush Makes Me Never Want to Brush My Teeth Again
Earlier this year, Colgate released a connected toothbrush, an artificially intelligent mouth cleaner that would be…
Going to The Caveman Dentist Was Probably a Nightmare
If you think your experience with the dentist is scary, just think about how bad the caveman dentist’s office would…
Ancient Tooth Plaque Divulges Neanderthal's Surprisingly Diverse Diets
It’s a good thing Neanderthals didn’t brush their teeth, otherwise we humans might not have been able to find out what…
Your Teeth Are Helping Scientists Build Better Airplanes
You might not think that the teeth in your mouth have much in common with the massive fangs you’ll find in a T-rex…
Wait, Does Dental Floss Even Work?
From a very young age, it’s drilled into us that we need to floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities. But as a…
Richard E. Grant Narrates This Gloriously Odd Short About Dental Health
Daniel Gray and Tom Brown wrote, directed, designed, animated, and produced Teeth, a droll yet sinister short about one…
3D Printing Your Own Braces Works, Is a Terrible Idea
At the age of nine, I became the first kid in my elementary school class to get braces. They did their job, but by the…
We're One Step Closer to Being Able to Regrow a Lost Tooth
We’re one step closer to being able to regrow a lost tooth, thanks to a new study showing it’s possible to grow…
How To Shoot A GoPro With Your Teeth
Want to capture epic first-person action photos, but don’t have a hand free? Pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz has a trick for…
Iron Is Better Than Fluoride At Preventing Cavities, But There's A Catch
Materials scientists studying beavers have discovered why the crafty rodents never get cavities: the enamel in their…
Terrifying "Living Fossil" Caught Off The Coast Of Australia
Frilled sharks have been around for 80 million years, but they are very rarely seen. So it was quite the event when…
Video: How braces can amazingly straighten crooked teeth
Getting braces for crooked teeth is one of our society's accepted forms of self torture for the sake of vanity. It's…
X-Ray Reveals Real Human Teeth in 300-Year-Old Jesus Statue
During an otherwise routine restoration, researchers at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (NIAH)…
Doctors Removed a Tooth Growing Into a Man's Nose
No, this isn't a case of a kid sticking a tooth into his nose and getting it stuck. This is a tooth that grew up into…
I Brushed My Teeth With the World's First Bluetooth Toothbrush
Being an adult is boring. It's a long checklist of necessary acts of maintenance that, in the end, fail us. That's why…