The study of dental microwear allows the analysis of the microscopic marks that foods leave on the surface of tooth enamel ...

A DRUG designed to regrow teeth has begun being tested on humans. Results are not ready yet, but if it works, the medication ...

Six teeth from Homo erectus individuals who lived roughly 400,000 years ago in China have yielded enamel proteins carrying an ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now, Japanese ...

A Ball State professor was part of a study linking tooth enamel to human evolution, including shifts tied to meat-eating and ...

Japan’s tooth-regrowth drug passes its first safety test. See how this breakthrough could change dental care by 2030.

A new tooth-regrowth drug from Japan cleared an early safety trial and could offer an alternative to implants and dentures.

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. At the moment, there are only a few options for dental replacements, such as dentures, titanium implants, or leaving the gap completely blank. But what if ...

This potentially all-female burial site opens up new questions regarding Homo naledi’s culture and social structure. If the ...

Human teeth and bones that are ground into calcium phosphate ash after undergoing alkaline hydrolysis, an alternative process to burial or cremation, are not added to food. The U.S. Food and Drug ...