A common rite of passage—having your wisdom teeth pulled—might be raising the risk of teens and young adults becoming…
It’s not unusual for construction workers to find historical objects inside of walls. But the team renovating the T.B.…
Earlier this year, Colgate released a connected toothbrush, an artificially intelligent mouth cleaner that would be…
If you think your experience with the dentist is scary, just think about how bad the caveman dentist’s office would…
It’s a good thing Neanderthals didn’t brush their teeth, otherwise we humans might not have been able to find out what…
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…
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…
Daniel Gray and Tom Brown wrote, directed, designed, animated, and produced Teeth, a droll yet sinister short about one…
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, thanks to a new study showing it’s possible to grow…
Want to capture epic first-person action photos, but don’t have a hand free? Pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz has a trick for…
Materials scientists studying beavers have discovered why the crafty rodents never get cavities: the enamel in their…
Frilled sharks have been around for 80 million years, but they are very rarely seen. So it was quite the event when…
Getting braces for crooked teeth is one of our society's accepted forms of self torture for the sake of vanity. It's…
During an otherwise routine restoration, researchers at Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (NIAH)…
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…
Being an adult is boring. It's a long checklist of necessary acts of maintenance that, in the end, fail us. That's why…
Inside each of our hard, calcified teeth is a small population of living stem cells that can differentiate into many…
Researchers from King's College London just announced a new approach to fixing cavities that requires no injections, no…
Teeth don't grow back, as your dentist might like to remind you while revving up the drill for a root canal. But…
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