Researchers aimed to understand how exposure to cigarette smoke causes alterations in bone structure.

A healthy set of bones is essential to keeping your body running smoothly, and not just because it holds all your squishier bits upright.

A bone autograft involves repairing bone with material from a person’s own body. Surgeons can take tissue from a person’s cancellous (spongy) bone, cortical (compact) bone, or bone marrow.

A unique collaboration between paleontologists, mechanical engineers and biomedical engineers revealed that the trabecular bone structure of hadrosaurs and several other dinosaurs is uniquely ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they've called the "exoparia." The finding deepens our ...

Medically reviewed by Brian T. Luong, DMD Teeth and bones are mineralized tissues with similarities, but teeth are not bones. They share similar properties, but differences in their makeup and ...

Examining how the structure of the jawbone varies with the intense chewing force, or masticatory force, may illuminate the mechanisms that lead to the reconstruction of bone tissue.

Dairy isn't the only food that's good for bone health. Prunes may also protect bone structure and strength in postmenopausal women, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers.

The bone and soft tissue pathology service provides comprehensive diagnostic evaluatrion of neoplastic (benign and malignant) and non-neoplastic diseases arising from soft tissue and bone, also known ...

However, bones are living tissue, teeth are not. We’ll explain what teeth and bone are actually made of, and how their structure informs their care and ability to heal.