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.

About the expert Sasha Ross, DMD, MS, is a board-certified periodontist who has been with the Cleveland Clinic since 2013. She earned her dental degree from the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and ...

Scientists in the U.K. have developed a new material that may allow them to grow teeth in the lab, which could provide an ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

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

We’re talking about wisdom teeth. They’re the bane of many people’s existence, causing swelling, bad breath, and jaw pain ...

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 ...

New research being conducted at King’s College London, UK, may have found an alternative to traditional tooth fillings ...

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 ...