Gingival: This type is usually caused by something that gets stuck in your gums, like a food particle or a broken tooth. If you think you have an abscess, call your dentist. If you cannot reach a ...

Stimulating your vagus nerve could help you live longer. A top scientist shares 3 easy things he does to activate his.

"In this condition, nerve involvement can occur alongside congenital or developmental anomalies, such as diastematomyelia, where the spinal cord is split from birth, or tethered to the skin and ...

The population size considered for sample size calculation was 7.200 patients seen in one year, the confidence interval was 95% and the frequency of at least one dental anomaly in the cleft lip and ...

Hearing preservation in Cochlear Implant (CI) surgery should be encouraged. Even for patients with auditory nerve mutations, CI can still be recommended. Despite gene therapy in preliminary studies ...

Each has a different function. For example, the olfactory nerve is essential for detecting smells. The functions of the cranial nerves are sensory, motor, or both. Sensory cranial nerves help a ...

In 2021, Jackson sat down with TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager for an exclusive interview about his diagnosis with a degenerative nerve condition called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. At the time ...

This is a ruptured, or herniated, disk. The fragments of disk material can then press on the nerve roots located just behind the disk space. This can cause pain, weakness, numbness, or changes in ...

A woman found a rare six-inch long megalodon tooth after she went scuba diving off Florida's Gulf Coast. According to Kristina Scott, she found the extinct shark's tooth when she was diving off ...

In vivo confocal microscopy of the sub-basal nerve plexus 6 years followinglaser in situ keratomileusis with significant reduction of sub-basal corneal nerves.