This led to the discovery of a new species of multituberculate named Cambelodon torreensis. Multituberculates were a ...

Wisdom teeth often emerge in early adulthood, sometimes causing pain, inflammation, or infection. Extraction is needed if ...

Scientists in Osaka began clinical trials on proteins to enable children without permanent teeth to develop a third set of ...

Not everyone has wisdom teeth. Third molars usually appear in early adulthood, and grow in at the very back of the mouth.

Scientists at King's College London, UK, say they've successfully grown a human tooth in a lab for the first time.

Wisdom teeth – also known as third molars – have long been a topic of curiosity and discomfort for many. Should they be ...

If you were shocked by the hundreds of thousands of microplastics we swallow when we chew gum, you’re in for another spook.

There’s an evolutionary reason behind wisdom teeth and why they cause so much trouble today.

The team developed a material that mimics the environment needed for tooth development, allowing cells to send signals and begin forming a tooth. Dr Ana Angelova-Volponi, director of regenerative ...

p<0.01), where species with longer faces have relatively longer maxillary and mandibular third molars. These traits are generally not correlated intraspecifically in the cercopithecids sampled, with ...

MPs have called for an end to the “national scandal” facing NHS dental care, as new figures reveal that in some areas of the country, A&E attendances for tooth decay have risen 40-fold since 2019.

Almost three thousand children had tooth decay so severe they attended A&E last year, new data reveals. MPs have called for an end to the “national scandal” facing NHS dental care, as new ...