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

Archeologists found three jade-inlaid teeth in a museum collection. These teeth show that Maya children used dental inlays as a form of art.

The secret to preventing tooth decay may have been hiding in your mouth all along. Increasing levels of an amino acid in ...

Cilk1 deficiency disrupts normal tooth development by altering primary cilia function and weakening Hedgehog signaling. This ...

A new clinical study involving human participants shows that arginine, a naturally occurring amino acid, can change how dental plaque develops on teeth, helping to reduce the risk of tooth decay. When ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a long-standing mystery: Who came before us? Three jawbones, including one from a child, ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. Chromosomes are thread-like structures that carry a cell's ...

If you’ve been brushing your teeth as long as you can remember, chances are you haven’t taken much time to reflect on your form, and the oral health habit is pretty much second nature. If too much of ...

For more than a century, filmmakers worldwide have brought vampires to life on screens big and small across hundreds of interpretations. While cinematic bloodsuckers have ranged from the ...

This video exposes the unsettling reality of a fish whose human-like teeth have left scientists and viewers equally disturbed. Researchers break down the anatomy behind its surprisingly familiar smile ...

A team of scientists in London may have found a way to repair tooth enamel using an ingredient found in an unexpected place: human hair. Researchers at King’s College London experimented with keratin, ...

Teeth help animals bite and chew food. Meat-eating carnivores tend to have sharp teeth to sink into their prey, while herbivores tend to have flatter teeth to grind down their plant-based meals. Some ...