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Methamphetamine, crack cocaine and soda affect teeth in roughly the same way, argues a study recently published in the journal General Dentistry.
Interestingly enough, it matter very little whether the soda is diet or not. Thus, researchers say that all types of soda take their toll of a person's teeth, which ... |
25 May 2013
16:01 GMT |
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A YouTube clip uploaded by user abbiekritz depicts the pain of letting go of childhood and becoming an adult, symbolized by taking out your wisdom teeth.
The young girl in the video appears to be under the influence of anesthetics after a trip to the dentist. She breaks down in tears after “murdering” he... |
29 March 2013
09:23 GMT |
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The Helicoprion is an ancestor of the modern sharks now inhabiting our oceans. However, few can doubt the fact that, as scary as a great white shark's teeth might be, the Helicoprion's smile used to be significantly more frightful.
With the help of art scanners, a team of specialists have recently managed... |
27 February 2013
09:34 GMT |
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Country singer LeAnn Rimes is going after her dentist in the court of law. The star has just filed papers against her dentist, arguing he ruined her mouth, health and even harmed her career, it has emerged.
It’s no secret that LeAnn has had veneers put in some time ago.
Neither is it a secret that she&rsquo... |
15 February 2013
04:39 GMT |
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The fact that sodas and other similar drinks seriously take their toll on people's teeth is no news. Still, there are many who buy and consume them on a regular basis, thinking that doctors and researchers are probably exaggerating.
William Kennewell's story stands as proof that, when it comes to drinking... |
5 February 2013
10:21 GMT |
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Archaeologists have uncovered the 1,600-year-old body of a woman near Lleida, in the Catalonia region in Spain. They were astounded to find a tumor inside it.
The woman had died in her 30s, and the condition that brought on her tumor is called ovarian teratoma. Even odder is the fact that the 1.7-inch (44-mm) growth... |
22 January 2013
10:33 GMT |
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Having a metal mouth is no longer frowned upon in Asia, where teens are wearing braces as a fashion statement. According to NY Daily News, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malayasia are being flooded with fake braces, which run a lot cheaper than real ones. Vice magazine writes that the movement is gaining exposure as star... |
3 January 2013
04:44 GMT |
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Quite a while ago, a zoo in Thailand witnessed the birth of several baby lions, which have now grown to be five months old and in perfectly good health.
However, the zoo's staff takes great pleasure in recollecting what these tiny big cats used to look like when they first came into this world: toothless and u... |
27 October 2012
09:21 GMT |
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Using a mineral called hydroxyapatite, a team of Japanese investigators was recently able to develop an extremely thin medical film, which can be applied to teeth to make them appear whiter, and also to prevent tooth decay.
The mineral is one of the main components of natural tooth enamel, and using it for this typ... |
18 September 2012
09:03 GMT |
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Workers on a construction site in San Francisco recently discovered the 10-inch (25-centimeter) tooth of a woolly mammoth. The artifact is in relatively good condition, albeit broken in half. A portion of it is missing, and could not be found in subsequent digs.
Scientists estimate that the tooth is around 11,000 ye... |
15 September 2012
06:55 GMT |
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The Plaisir Dental Salon in Tokyo promises to make you more attractive by making your teeth look crooked and yellow. You don't even have to smoke to achieve this effect.
Apparently, perfection is not desirable in Japan. You are most likely to be approached by a suitor if your hair is frizzy, you wear glasses a... |
7 September 2012
04:43 GMT |
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A collaboration of scientists in the United States announces the development of a new approach for improving dental health among patients who need bone implants. According to the experts, soaking sponges in stem cells, and then applying them to the mouth, promote bone growth effectively.
The approach was tested on p... |
31 July 2012
05:17 GMT |
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Researchers at the Princeton University have created a special, removable tattoo, that will soon be capable of monitoring dental health at unprecedented levels of accuracy. The sensitive instrument will be able to detect harmful bacteria that develop on tooth enamel.
This is also where the tattoo adheres, as demons... |
29 May 2012
10:53 GMT |
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Scientists have been debating what Tyrannosaurs Rex was really capable of doing for many years, and one of the main topics for discussion was the strength of the giant lizard's bite. A new study settles the issue, showing that the dinosaur had the strongest bite ever known.
In a study published in the February ... |
29 February 2012
05:00 GMT |
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Just two weeks ago, Lindsay Lohan walked a red carpet with “rotting” teeth that prompted even her estranged father she was most certainly smoking crack. Today, Lindsay has a brand new smile. The legally troubled actress, who's due in court any day now for parole violation, found some time in between ... |
31 October 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Usually, if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. In the case of the newly-created cavity solution that helps teeth regenerate themselves, it’s true: researchers at Leeds University have come up with a solution that will make visits to the dentist’s more pleasant. As GizMag points out, some... |
24 August 2011
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TLC’s reality show “Toddlers and Tiaras” is a hit and, some would say, part of its appeal is that it’s so outrageous. After causing a ruckus when it showed a mom waxing her 9-year-old daughter's eyebrows, the show is now making waves with a mom that bleaches her kids’ teeth. The lat... |
2 July 2011
11:41 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new scientific investigation, it would appear that males belonging to two bipedal hominid species were more keen to staying at home, then they were to roaming the savannas. The study indicates that the females of the species were responsible for that. These discoveries were made in t... |
3 June 2011
10:00 GMT |
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During World War II, a large part of the Peking Man fossils that had been dug up decades before went missing. Remains were already extremely rare, and so scientists were left without any real-life fossil to study for decades. But now, a canine tooth belonging to this species was discovered in Sweden. Researchers at t... |
17 May 2011
09:50 GMT |
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Anthropologists believe that the earliest humans may have spent a lot more time eating millions of years ago then we do today. The reasons for this are multiple, and scientists say that teeth casts provide everything. In a new study, they compared such casts with those taken from other animals.The records span back t... |
19 April 2011
07:38 GMT |
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While digging in central Israel, at a cave near a site called Rosh Haain, researchers discovered no less than eight small teeth. Subsequent analysis revealed that they belonged to humans, and so this finding is starting to bring into question the origins of the first humans, as well as the time when they appeared.Ant... |
9 February 2011
11:20 GMT |
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A new research carried out by scientists at Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (MPI-EVA), and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), on teeth coming from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils, revealed that modern humans reach full maturity much slower than our ancesto... |
16 November 2010
08:20 GMT |
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Nothing beats a beautiful, bright, near-perfect smile. For those who consider veneers too risky of those who wouldn’t want to have a dentist whiten their chompers, there is another option available: the Snap-On Smile. The Snap-On Smile is exactly what its name suggests: a custom-made set of false teeth that one... |
8 November 2010
15:51 GMT |
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It’s only a few years that Kanye West was singing about blood diamonds, but many things have changed since then. For instance, he thinks diamond teeth are much “cooler” than the one he was born with. The rapper was on Ellen DeGeneres the other day to talk about his spiritual journey in the aftermath... |
20 October 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Sultan Kosen, the 27-year-old who currently holds the record for the world’s tallest man, is now in the US, where he’s about to undergo surgical work on his mouth to the tune of $50,000.According to the Orange County Register’s In Your Face column, Sultan will benefit for all the dental work without... |
27 August 2010
14:31 GMT |
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A team of Swiss researchers from the University of Zürich announces the discovery of a new gene that is apparently involved in the tooth formation (odontogenesis) process. In a new paper, the researchers explain how inactivating the gene called Jagged2 can result in the developed organism featuring teeth that ha... |
5 August 2010
06:51 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, it was revealed that analyzing the isotopic signature of various chemicals found in the bone, and especially the teeth, of ancient animals could give researchers more clues as to how warm the creatures' bodies were. The new investigations method relies on looking at the way in which ve... |
25 May 2010
04:48 GMT |
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A group of experts from the Columbia University, in the United States, announces the development of a new approach to dental care, which could see old dental implants and fillings become history. The technique revolves around using stem cells to grow new teeth, and it has already proven to be a valid approach in labo... |
24 May 2010
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From the Oligocene to the Pleistocene epoch, megalodon was the largest shark to have ever lived. It roamed Earth's waters between 25 and 1.5 million years ago, and researchers say that it is the ancestor of modern-day sharks. These creatures could grow to impressive sizes, with some specimens believed to have be... |
19 May 2010
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Researchers have recently determined that an ancient, crocodile-like reptile had an appetite for eating sea turtles, as well as dinosaurs. According to evidence found on bones and shells, it would seem that the predator, which was about the length of two modern cars, did not resent eating most things it could find, e... |
19 March 2010
03:29 GMT |
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A team of investigators has recently been able to reconstruct an impressive battle scene between a dolphin and a shark, which is believed to have taken place some 4 million years ago. The data needed to put together what happened was collected from bite marks and other tell-tale signs from the fossilized remains of t... |
18 March 2010
04:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the University of Helsinki Institute of Biotechnology announces the creation of a new computer model meant to reproduce population-level variations in complex organs and teeth. The achievement could in the near future be used as foundation for new techniques designed to construct artificia... |
16 March 2010
03:36 GMT |
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According to investigators, human teeth are extremely sensitive to recording information about past experiences we may have encountered, in the sense that they store data on the environmental pollution and radiation levels we came across at some point in our lives. Knowing this, a group of researchers is currently wo... |
27 February 2010
02:35 GMT |
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A new scientific study has demonstrated the influence that the parents' actions have on their children, at least as far as going to see the dentist is concerned. The research shows that children of parents who consult their dental healthcare experts regularly are more likely to do the same, and not fear the doct... |
1 February 2010
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In the near future, we may no longer experience the discomfort of having our teeth drilled into via a fast-spinning metal object. According to a scientific study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Medical Microbiology, plasma jets could soon replace the action of the mechanical drills in obliterating ... |
20 January 2010
05:42 GMT |
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English researchers at the University of Bristol publish a new study in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) showcasing how the fossilized tooth of a 30,000-year-old boy shapes our understanding of our species' evolution. The path that modern humans took in... |
7 January 2010
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Some of the most fundamental aspects of primate evolution are closely related to the timing of molar development and eruption, two scientists report in a new paper. Regardless of the species, from the largest to the smallest, all primates exhibit this correlation. The same thing holds true in humans as well, the team... |
29 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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According to amounting body of pieces of evidence, it may be that dinosaurs that lived in the late Cretaceous period were venomous, packing the dangerous chemicals inside their fangs. This is especially true for the saber-toothed relatives of velociraptors, which are considered to be among the ancestors of modern bir... |
22 December 2009
02:50 GMT |
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For a long time, dentists have expressed their amazement at how the outer layer covering the teeth, the enamel, manages to endure so much stress and wear over the course of a lifetime without degrading or decaying too much. This is especially hard to explain, considering that the material itself is only as tough as g... |
20 August 2009
18:21 GMT |
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Japanese researchers have managed to recently bring new hope to the millions of people worldwide suffering from tooth conditions such as cavities, when they succeeded in artificially conditioning mice into developing new teeth to replace the ones they'd lost. The method does not rely on implanting artificial pro... |
4 August 2009
19:41 GMT |
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They say one of the first things you notice about a person is their smile. With this in mind, it’s not hard to understand why we’re all striving to achieve that pearly white, perfect, Hollywood smile, and would even be willing to pay several months’ worth of rent to get it. However, men with good te... |
3 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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In their quests for the best possible materials to implement in new dentures, teeth experts have recently created Dento-Munch, a creepy-looking robot that does nothing else all day except munching. Despite its large grin, owed mostly to the fact that it has no lips, the machine's purpose is actually very complex... |
30 June 2009
04:14 GMT |
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The name piranha alone is oftentimes enough to instill fear in the hearts of people, as it evokes those razor-sharp teeth that can tear flesh several times the size of the fish itself from virtually anything that, well, has flesh on it. But researchers studying the animals are not so puzzled by this mystery, as they ... |
30 June 2009
03:58 GMT |
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When thinking of plasma, the first thing that comes to mind is temperature. A whole lot of it, in fact. Millions of degrees are required to turn gas into this state, and experts at the University of Southern California now want to use it on our teeth. They recently created a new plasma tool, which uses the matter to ... |
11 June 2009
03:43 GMT |
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At this point, dentists around the world have to engage in a very time-consuming process, when it comes to repairing their patients' teeth. They have to resort to molds and technicians to create a perfect mold of the teeth, so that it fits inside the mouth seamlessly. However, all that may soon be a thing of the... |
8 June 2009
03:51 GMT |
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Lately, with the influence of global warming rising worldwide, animal experts said that the rise in temperatures might catch many species off-guard, as in unable to modify their behavioral patterns fast enough to survive. They also said that this situation would lead to a massive extinction among species, especially ... |
4 June 2009
04:17 GMT |
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Human teeth have such a remarkable strength, that dentists never cease to be amazed at how even a tooth covered in cracks can still hold together, without breaking apart. They know that the enamel, which constitutes the outer layer of the teeth, is a very strong, yet brittle material, and so they couldn't explai... |
14 April 2009
06:15 GMT |
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In today's world, more and more people find themselves in dire need of more energy, a fact illustrated by the booming business of producing and selling sports drinks. Increasing numbers of US citizens can be seen throughout the day sipping from their bottles, in hopes of getting enough energy from the liquid to ... |
6 April 2009
04:32 GMT |
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While the debate on how many times a day we should brush our teeth and floss has not yet been closed, arguably, most of us do it twice or three times a day. A new study comes now to show that, as we’re doing so, we’re not only promoting gum health and keeping our pearly teeth white, but also diminishing t... |
3 April 2009
14:21 GMT |
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As opposed to sharks, for example, mammals usually grow their teeth in single rows, one in the upper part of the mouth, and the other directly beneath. This allows them to bite and rip apart meat or other harder foods. But geneticists and other researchers have wondered for a long time about what tells the human body... |
27 February 2009
06:23 GMT |
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