Dr. Purva Merchant has been answering letters from gaptoothed children and their parents — roughly 6,000 in all. “Happy ...

How Does it Work? Research from the University of the Basque Country in Northern Spain found that the soft core of wisdom teeth called dental pulp could be transformed into neurons, bone, and even ...

Usually, the socket—the hole in the bone where the tooth was pulled—is covered by a protective blood clot as the area heals.

A pioneering study in experimental archaeology has revealed the techniques used by prehistoric communities in north-eastern Europe to extract animal teeth for crafting personal ornaments—offering ...

Researchers from the University of York and University of Helsinki said the discovery showed Stone Age societies treated ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

NHS dental crisis left Linda Colla having to pull out her last three teeth after being unable to get an NHS dentist for seven ...

million wisdom teeth are removed every year, but the process of sending them to a biobank could be very simple.

Molecules from the 20-million-year-old teeth of a rhino relative are among the oldest ever sequenced, opening tantalizing ...

"You can pull my teeth, doctor," he said. "without using any of your new-fangled things to keep the pain out. I don't take any stock in gas, or any other of them pain-killer things.

Various methods han been resorted to for the purpose of alleviating the excruciating agony consequent upon the extraction of teeth ; but as the general anaesthetics are in all cases tedious and ...