A new discovery by our team, published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, shows the start of this process dates back more than 380 million years. The first evidence of teeth in any vertebrate ...

A new study of ancient, extinct fish known as placoderms provides another piece of the evolutionary puzzle about our deep ...

Here Dr Joe explains what the colour of your teeth really reveal.

Dentin or dentine is a layer of material that lies immediately underneath the enamel of the tooth. It is one of the four major components of the tooth which comprises: The outer hard enamel The dentin ...

Join Ashish Soneji on 29 September at 7pm as he discusses contemporary management of carious and iatrogenic pulpal exposures.

In order to relieve this pain, reported New Atlas, many people use desensitizing toothpastes, but these only give temporary relief. So, the researchers decided to think deeper, and created CalBots, ...

Sensitive teeth need tough toothpaste, but technology can also help. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in collaboration with deep-tech startup Theranautilus have now engineered ...

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Paleontologists have long suspected that our teeth evolved from bumpy structures called odontodes on the exoskeletons of prehistoric fish—but they didn’t understand exactly what these bumps were used ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...

New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

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