Tooth wear was a slow process in this group of patients. Study casts are a convenient way to monitor the longitudinal progress of tooth wear. Restorations are not always indicated to control tooth ...

A simple, straightforward developmental rule -- the 'patterning cascade' -- is powerful enough to explain the massive variability in molar crown configuration over the past 15 million years of ape and ...

A report studying the effectiveness of three strategies that were used to expand dental health care makes the case that using mid-level oral health practitioners could be an economical path to making ...

Across the world of mammals, teeth come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Their particular size and shape are the process of millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning to produce teeth that can ...