Research groups around the world are working to find ways to implant or grow real biological teeth in a human jaw.

Researchers at Columbia University have claimed another advance in the quest to grow biological teeth that could eventually be used instead of implants. Writing in the Journal of Dental Research (May ...

This clock, or biological rhythm, controls many metabolic functions and is based on the circadian rhythm, which is a roughly 24-hour cycle that is important in determining sleeping and feeding ...

Paleoanthropologists have wondered how and why humans evolved molars that emerge into the mouth at specific ages and why those ages are so delayed compared to living apes. It is the coordination ...

At one of your trips to the dentist, the subject of wisdom teeth will be brought up. X-rays will be taken, questions asked ...

Kids who belonged to now-extinct species in the human evolutionary family grew at unexpected rates, unlike the growth of either present-day people or apes, a new study of their teeth finds. As a ...

Ever wonder why sharks get several rows of teeth and people only just one? Some geneticists did, and their discovery could one day help adults grow new teeth when their old ones wear out. A single ...