"Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it?

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that humans possess a third set of teeth, a revelation that could revolutionize dental health. Scientists have developed a medicine that may stimulate the ...

Humans naturally produce only two sets of teeth in their lifetime, so tooth loss due to injury or disease is fairly common. Lost teeth are replaced, not restored, with dentures, fillings, or implants.

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 new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full maturity (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

Introduction : Why teeth? -- I. Development. Microscopes, cells, and biological rhythms -- The big picture : birth, death, and everything in between -- Things that can go wrong : stress, pathology, ...

This research was supported through grants to Tesla Monson's collaborators by the Washington Research Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Much of the data collection for the extant primates ...

Eating too much ultra-processed food could affect our face shape, jaw development, breathing habits, dental health and oral hygiene, according to dentists. Ultra-processed food (UPF) is a category ...

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 ...