Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

Researchers have described proteins that they say are among the most ancient ever sequenced. Two teams, which analysed ...

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

"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.

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

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 ...