While teeth play a greater role in health than many realise, current dental solutions for tooth loss are temporary and subpar. What if we could regrow our teeth instead?

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

Llamas are cute, but what makes them even better human companions is their gentleness and empathy. People from their native habitat, the Andes Mountains in South America, dub them “silent brothers”.

A new study published in the Journal of Dentistry showed that when more than 50% of the natural tooth structure was preserved ...

New research suggests the wisdom teeth you had pulled may have held two secret abilities all along, scientists now confirm.

From embryo to turtle cracker: a team led by palaeobiologist Julia Türtscher from the University of Vienna studied the multiple changes in tooth shape in the tiger shark. The study, recently published ...

For decades, losing a permanent tooth has been considered irreversible. Once a tooth was gone, the only solutions were ...