Japan’s tooth-regrowth breakthrough changes everything Losing teeth has meant artificial replacements for centuries. Japanese ...

It’s not surprising that many people fear the dentist. Replacing a tooth often requires invasive surgery and implanting a titanium screw into a patient’s jawbone, then waiting months for that to ...

For most of human history, straight, well spaced teeth were the norm, not a luxury that required years of metal and elastic ...

Dental researchers from Tufts University took cells from the dental pulp of a human tooth and mixed them with cells from the enamel of a pig tooth and seeded them onto a “scaffold.” It was then grown ...

View post: We Already Have a Contender for the Best Movie of 2026 A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth. Our ...

View post: Savannah Guthrie and Siblings Tearfully Plead With Mom's Abductor: 'We Are Ready to Talk' The next time you wince from an ice-cold drink or a too-hot slice of pizza, blame your ancestors.

Researchers from the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine have penned a new study published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine that details the process of growing a mix of human ...

Ian Towle receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). Luca Fiorenza receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). For decades, small grooves on ...

Oral frailty can shorten your life expectancy, so those dreaded visits, drills and all, really are for your own good.

A large comparative study of primate teeth shows that grooves once linked to ancient human tooth-picking can form naturally, while some common modern dental problems appear uniquely human.

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WPVI) -- Workers renovating a building in Georgia made an unusual discovery last week. Nearly 1,000 human teeth were found behind the walls of the Valdosta, Georgia building. The find ...