The saber-toothed cats that once prowled modern day California had more distinct dental features than even their sabers would suggest. Some of the complete skulls had a tooth socket occupied by ...

But if you lose an adult tooth, your options are limited to dentures, titanium implants, or a stylish gaping hole. Soon, however, there might be a third option: lab-grown teeth.

As long as there are hockey players, there will be niche markets for false teeth. But the real news about the future of dentures is that there isn't much of one. Toothlessness has declined 60 ...

Lungfish, the closest living relatives of four-limbed animals, are unique in that adults lack marginal teeth and have to rely on palatal dental plates for crushing food. We have discovered that an ...

Humans have two pairs of teeth during their lifetime, primary (milk teeth) and permanent (adult) teeth. Primary teeth are 20 in number, 10 in each jaw, respectively. Whereas, there are 32 ...

Here's what to do if your toddler chips, cracks, or knocks out a tooth. ... But you should still visit a dentist to check for damage below the gums, especially to the developing adult tooth.

All extant mammals share the same eruption pattern, a sequential anteroposterior replacement pattern in which the front teeth fall out first, followed one by one by each other tooth.

When the adult tooth has reached a certain size under the gum, it starts putting pressure on the roots of the baby tooth above it, according to Colgate. Advertisement.