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Tyrannosaurs Rex Had the Strongest Bite Ever Recorded

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

Lindsay Lohan Gets Her Pearly Whites Back

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

Researchers Create Cavity Solution that Helps Regenerate Teeth

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
17:01 GMT

Mom Bleaching Kids’ Teeth on ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’ Causes Outrage

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

Female Hominids, Not Males, Roamed the Savannas

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

Forgotten Boxes Reveal Peking Man Tooth

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

Teeth Reveal Clues of Ancient Human Eating Habits

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

Earliest Humans Come Under Scrutiny After Discovery

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

Teeth Analysis Reveals that Modern Humans Mature Slower than Neanderthals Did

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

Get a Perfect, Painless and Cheaper Smile with the Snap-On Smile

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

Kanye West Gets Diamond Teeth: I Think They’re Cooler

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

World’s Tallest Man Gets Brand New, $50,000 Smile

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

New Gene Involved in Tooth Formation Found

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

Determining Fossils' Body Temperatures

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

New Technique Will Make Dental Implants History

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
12:01 GMT

Megalodon Nursery Found in Panama

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
02:35 GMT

Some Dinosaurs Fell Prey to Massive Reptile

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

Ancient Shark vs Dolphin Fight Reconstructed

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

Constructing Artificial Teeth and Organs

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

Using Tooth Enamel to Gage Radiation Exposure

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

Children Dental-Care Habits Tied to Their Parents'

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
05:45 GMT

Good News: Dentist's Drill Will Be Replaced by Plasma Jets

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

30-Millennium-Old Tooth Analyzed

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
17:01 GMT

Molars Give Clues on Our Evolution

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

Dinosaurs May Have Been Venomous

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

Tooth Enamel Inspires Next-Gen Aircraft

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

Lab Mice Get New Teeth Through Genetic Effort

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

Tips to Get the Perfect Hollywood Smile

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

New, Munching Robot to Test Artificial Teeth Materials

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

Scientists Find Where Piranhas Got Their Teeth from

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

Clean Your Teeth with Plasma

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

Experts Create 3D Teeth-Mapping Technique

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

Fossil Teeth Give Clues of Animals' Evolutionary Abilities

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

Teeth Reveal the Source of Their Strength

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

Sports Drinks Can Erode the Teeth

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

Oral Hygiene Linked to Heart Attack Risk

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

Why We Grow Our Teeth in Single Rows

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

Veneers – Incredibly Painful, Expensive and Irreversible Procedure

They say nothing makes a more lasting impression than the closest thing to a perfect smile. Today, thanks to the advances in the dental world, having a mind-blowing smile is easily attainable by means of cosmetic dentistry. This means either getting the teeth professionally whitened or having veneers put in, but what...

24 February 2009
14:41 GMT

Lab-Grown Teeth Are the Future of Dentistry

Dentists are hopeful that, in the near future, they will be able to treat patients not with artificial dentures and fillings, but with artificially-grown teeth, manufactured in the lab. These new teeth would look exactly like the ones they are designed to replace, and could offer a much cheaper alternative to complex...

24 February 2009
08:57 GMT

Keep Your Dog's Teeth Healthy

Everyone knows that dogs have very strong teeth that can easily chew their way through your favorite pair of shoes, furniture, and even family heirlooms. But their teeth are not impervious to the effects of their lifestyle. In fact, most dogs, of all species, develop one form or another of periodontal disease, which ...

20 December 2008
04:45 GMT

Busted: 4 Popular Myths About Your Health

Since our health really is - or at least, it should be - our most precious asset, we're all likely to feel extremely protective when it comes to our own bodies, so much so in fact that to some extent, we all believe in small "superstitions", things we acquired or were taught, various myths about certain aspects ...

13 May 2008
04:55 GMT

The Secret of Komodo Dragon Bite

It is by far the largest living lizard: the Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) grows over 3 m (10 ft) in length, weighing over 154 pounds (70 kg). But even if the giant monitor lizard manages to kill animals as large as water buffaloes (and in the past it may have feasted on pygmy elephants), its bite is relatively...

15 April 2008
03:11 GMT

Cannabis Makes You Lose Your Teeth!

You may feel high, you may feel sexier, but how does this come when you may be losing your teeth? A new research published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" has connected heavy smoking of cannabis in young people to a higher risk for periodontal disease.After taking into account tobacco smoking, ge...

6 February 2008
03:58 GMT

The Marsupial Lion Would Have Killed an African Lion in Fight!

Its closest relative were the koala and the wombats. But it was not a leaf lover; instead, it slew extinct cow-sized kangaroos and hippo-sized Diprotodons. The extinct Australian marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) was the largest carnivorous marsupial mammal ever and a new research published in the Journal of Zoolo...

18 January 2008
03:32 GMT

Bad Teeth Mean You're Gonna Have a Heart Attack

In past times, infections were the main cause of human death. Now, in the western world, the cardiovascular disease is the leader, bypassing cancer. But while you may be aware that healthy food, exercising and quitting smoking maintain a healthy heart, you should also know that the health of your teeth also impact th...

9 January 2008
04:39 GMT

Which Is the Formula of the Perfect Smile?

You can make your life mate fall in love with you big time with just… a smile! For Hollywood stars, the smile is an essential part of their C.V. Awful smile and teeth are not only unpleasant, but also indicators of physical and mental problems.A new research published in the journal Dental Clinics of North America we...

26 November 2007
05:41 GMT

Oh My God! iPods Can Rock Your Teeth, Literally!

This might be the next trend following the world's obsession with cosmetic dentistry, or another industry that uses the mighty iPod. Either ways, it sounds great!I have to admit I would like to meet the man behind this concept. I'm talking about Mike Williams, and his amazing "Rock my teeth system", which i...

3 October 2007
06:21 GMT

Bad Teeth = Heart Attack

You may induce a heart attack on those around you by displaying blackened and fouling teeth, but because of them you could also have a heart attack. A medical team in Marseille has discovered that those with the worst blockages in their arteries also displayed the most severe gum disease. Gum disease was known as an ...

11 September 2007
05:26 GMT

Alien Type of Feeding in Marine Monster

Moray eels are damn ugly fish and they could be a source of inspiration for many horror and SF movie characters. Over 200 species dwell in tropical seas worldwide, inhabiting holes in rocks and coral reefs. These eels can scare the hell out of novel scuba divers, as some can reach 10 feet (3 m) in length and display ...

6 September 2007
03:00 GMT

Stress Can Make You Lose Your Teeth

We know that you lose your hair, fertility and potency because of stress. Maybe your mind, too. Now a new review has found a strong relationship between stress and periodontal diseases; 57% of the studies included in the review found a strong link between periodontal diseases and psychological factors like stress, di...

9 August 2007
06:06 GMT


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