The cremation process destroys a lot of information that can usually be obtained from the human skeleton. Especially diseases are difficult to observe. This has caused a paucity in our knowledge of ...

Human teeth have to serve a lifetime despite being subjected to acid, grinding and huge forces. But why teeth are so hardy hasn’t been understood until now. German scientists studying the structure of ...

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Fish and mammal teeth are not created equal. Sometime after the move from spineless to having a backbone, the family of genes that controls tissue mineralization evolved to produce mammalian tooth ...

Scientists believe they have worked out why biting down on ice or drinking something really cold causes excruciating pain for some people. They have located the cells and signals in sensitive teeth ...

Observations on the sensitivity of dentine in man Dentine assumed by many to be richly innervated on account of its high sensitivity Greater sensitivity of enamel/dentine junction than underlying ...

LM showed Tomes’ fibre (incorrectly assumed to be the odontoblast process) extending into outer dentine This, coupled with the lack of conclusive evidence for nerves in dentine, raised the possibility ...

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 ...