Giraffes are known for their long, impressive tongues, but they have a cool set of teeth in their mouths as well. Even though ...

Maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with dental anomalies in children, including enamel defects and hypodontia, ...

When your child is born, they have a full set of 20 primary teeth that grows in by the age of three. After that, your child’s permanent teeth push out the baby teeth throughout childhood until ...

New research has found that parents struggle with these questions. A new national poll from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital has ...

Background: To evaluate disturbances in primary tooth eruption and their management with nonpharmacological remedies. Methods: In this nonrandomized clinical trial, 270 children aged between 8 and ...

Finally, the eruption of the third of our big chewing teeth (M3—the wisdom tooth in humans) has been associated with reaching ...

A child usually has 20 baby teeth, which start to come through at about 6 months of age. They fall out, or shed, at various times throughout childhood. By age 21, all 32 permanent teeth have ...

On analysis of panoramic X-rays, the authors found that root closure and eruption of SPM were accelerated ... in the adjacent SPMs and premolar teeth than arches in which the FPM was present ...

Tooth loss is a common theme for nightmares and horror movies, but it’s actually a normal part of human development that can sometimes be vital for our oral health. We’ve asked two dental ...

Kīlauea Volcano's recent eruption features lava fountaining up to 1,000 feet, with USGS monitoring the activity in Hawaiʻi ...

Prior studies indicate that the timing of first molar eruption strongly predicts many aspects of dental and physical development, putting Dmanisi on a chimplike trajectory, Smith says. Chimplike ...