Tag: teeth

The presence of an enamel layer is one of the key distinguishing features between the two.

Researchers quantified the environmental impact of three different preventive dental measures.

When enamel starts wearing off, cavities are not far behind. This new material could finally bring dentistry in the 21st ...

They just couldn't seem to make up their mind.

A banana can teach you much about history.

I mean, who hasn't this happened to, right?

Tree ring-like growth lines in baby Neanderthal teeth suggest they were first weaned at around 6 months of age.

Whitening strips may damage your teeth's dentin layer.

A new study found that early human ancestors had teeth that could penetrate the hard shells of nuts and seeds ...

The teeth were in perfect health when they were drilled for ornamentation purposes more than 8,000 years ago.

Not all bodies are the same.

Is this mutiny?!

Take a bite out of this story.

This is not the Nemo you're looking for.

Sometimes it pays to be the smallest fish in the pond.

We don't know why they did so.

Baleen, one surprising fossil suggests, evolved from gums rather than teeth.

How long has it been since your last checkup?

Not all dino teeth are made the same...

Emphasis on might.

Sink your teeth into this story.

No more of that awful drilling in your teeth.

Imagine spending half of your day chewing food like our cousins, the chimpanzees. You'd never get anything done. Strikingly, human ...

Recent fossils unearthed in the Chinese province of Daoxian come to unravel the story of humanity’s spread as we know ...

Fewer materials in nature rival the toughness and resilience of a tooth or a seashell, and it's all due to ...

Just as today -or a little less often, as we tend to abuse our teeth quite a bit nowadyas – ...

With the advancements in 3D printing, it only seems like a matter of time until it starts to actively affect ...

A new study has found that chewing gum is actually effective at cleaning your mouth of bacteria - but only ...

An international team of scientists believe they have across the  "microbial Pompeii" after they found preserved bacteria and microscopic particles of food ...

Conodonts - Greek for “having cone-shaped teeth” - are extinct chordates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. These are some ...

William Kennewel wasn't a big fan of water - drinking soda instead of it pretty much all the time; now, ...

Energy and sports drink do give you a quick rush when you might feel like nothing else can do the ...

A fresh look at some already known fossilized remains revealed quite a surprise: they turned out to be the earliest ...

A recently published remarkable study describes how scientists from Japan have successfully manage to grow teeth inside a lab using ...

Paleontologists turned into dentists after an examination of the fossilized jaw of a reptile from the Paleozoic era revealed what's ...

It's not because they deserve it, if that's what you're thinking - you mysoginistic bastard; and it's not because they're ...