About 1 in 10 children are born with at least one missing permanent tooth due to congenital anomalies. And a much higher percentage of adults lose teeth from decay or injury over their lifetimes.

3D printing has disrupted the traditional manufacturing of countless products. One you may have in your mouth right now: clear dental aligners. Leaders in the $4 billion clear aligners market, such as ...

American alligators might serve as suitable models to study tooth replacement in human adults, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (May 13, 2013). To uncover ...

Cilk1 deficiency disrupts normal tooth development by altering primary cilia function and weakening Hedgehog signaling. This reduction triggers extra diastemal teeth, enlarges them under further ...