National Dentist Day is the perfect opportunity to recognize the vital role dentists play in maintaining our oral health and ...

Nearly half of children in the U.S. have experienced decay, fillings, or missing teeth by age 9. Parents should start brushing their children's teeth as soon as the first tooth appears and begin ...

Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard guest on PBS series 'Finding Your Roots' The married actors both grew up in metro Detroit. Two of metro Detroit's homegrown celebrities, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard ...

Because dentists could grow human teeth within the next 20 years ... a naturally grown tooth pulp that can be implanted in a root canal. Instead of using standard cement, a dentist could fill ...

An adult male’s tusk, which in the elephant’s case are enlarged incisors, can be about 7.7 feet long. Like the baby teeth of humans, elephants start off with miniature tusks that they usually lose ...

Our baby teeth act as placeholders for our larger, adult teeth to come through. When the adult tooth has reached a certain size under the gum, it starts putting pressure on the roots of the baby ...

Objective: To analyze the internal morphology of root canals in hypomineralized molars and compare them with healthy teeth and different lesion discolorations using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT ...

Baby boomers' teeth are rotting and falling out due to ... issues or falling into ill health from conditions that have their root in poor teeth. 'Many people feel they cannot have beautiful ...

Baby teeth do fall out but how we care for those tiny teeth is crucial. Helping your child have healthy baby teeth is the first step to a lifetime of good oral health. Baby teeth help children ...

Cavities, or tooth decay, are small holes in the teeth. As a result ... are the most effective self-applied fluoride methods for root caries. U.S. cities and towns also recognize the importance ...

But why are they so sharp and pointy? At a young age, puppies don't yet have the jaw strength to chew through food (especially when it comes to meat, which they'd encounter in the wild) so their baby ...