But Champ lost her job in February of last year and had to go on Medicaid federal health insurance. She has been suffering from the condition the entire time. The oral surgeons she contacted had ...

Fossils smaller than a fingertip are reshaping what scientists thought they knew about how primate relatives spread after the asteroid impact.

A porcelain bridge is a reliable way to replace a missing tooth, restore your smile, and improve chewing without the longer ...

New capabilities connect SOAP-note ground truth with financial conversations to help dental organizations standardize ...

We tested 7 electric toothbrushes to compare their brushing power, battery life and feature set. Three stood out as the ...

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

The RINO project was born from the discovery of unusual marks on rhinoceros teeth recovered from the prehistoric Payre site ...

For decades, paleoanthropologists pointed to tiny grooves between ancient hominin teeth as proof that early humans and ...

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The prehistoric hominins “apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine,” said the anthropologist John Olsen. By Franz Lidz Franz Lidz has had two root canals and was ...

The world’s first dentist was a Neanderthal, according to a recent study. 59,000 years ago in what’s now southwestern Siberia, a Neanderthal had a toothache. It must have been a doozy because they ...

Some 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal developed a toothache. What happened next was, in many ways, astonishing. This individual figured out the source of their pain, deep inside a molar. They probably ...