Contrary to popular belief, ancient Egyptians and Etruscans did not invent orthodontics. Their gold wires and bands served as ...

Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth. It’s a tale ...

This 35-year-old patient was concerned that her front teeth were wearing at an angle (Figure 5). Figure 5. Full smile pre-treatment. Closer examination revealed that because of the distal rotation of ...

My 7-year-old just lost her upper right central incisor. Well, more accurately, she grabbed a plastic spoon and dug into the socket where the tooth was hanging by a thread and extracted it. I deal ...

Though we probably consider tooth brushing more a part of our beauty regimes than our prehistoric ancestors did, ancient tooth brushing — no matter how different from our modern day equivalent — has ...

The discovery of an ancient molar — a tooth that likely belonged to young girl who lived up to 164,000 years ago in a cave in what is now Laos — is new evidence that the mysterious human lineage ...

The tooth of a young girl found in a cave in Laos has been revealed to belong to a group of prehistoric human relatives known as Denisovans, and the discovery is helping researchers better understand ...