Small clusters of pits in tooth enamel may be traced back to a single evolutionary lineage millions of years ago.

We're always learning something new about human evolution, and this time, ancient teeth can provide some interesting details of our connection to our fossil ancestors. You know the enamel that forms ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...

However, the individual showed a more human-like delayed development of the back teeth relative to the front teeth. There was also evidence of a late growth spurt in the teeth. “The trajectory ...

In a paper published in late December, a team at Tufts University reported having successfully grown human-like teeth in pigs. Pamela Yelick, a professor at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine and ...

The ability to grow human teeth could significantly improve outcomes for patients who lose adult teeth because of injury, decay or disease. Unlike current solutions—including implants and crowns ...

Building off work published late last year in ACS Macro Letters, a team at King’s College London is developing methods for lab-grown replacement teeth and fillings made from human cells.

With this, we might be one step closer to growing human teeth in a lab in the near future.” Xuechen Zhang, researcher at the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, said ...