People make judgements about the personal characteristics of photographed individuals based on dental appearance. Teeth that appear whitened elicit preferable judgements in comparison to normal enamel ...

When a dentist says the word "cavity" a lot of people sweat thinking about painful injections and relentless drilling. But scientists in Britain have developed a new procedure dubbed EAER, or ...

British scientists have discovered a technique which can make a decayed tooth repair itself. LONDON: British scientists have discovered a technique which can make a decayed tooth repair itself. The ...

A gel that can help decayed teeth grow back in just weeks may mean an end to fillings. The gel, which is being developed by scientists in France, works by prompting cells in teeth to start multiplying ...

A dentist has found a way to make decayed tooth enamel re-grow, thus eliminating the necessity of fillings. The treatment works by delivering a powerful solution of calcium, fluoride and phosphate to ...

Tooth decay, also known as dental caries, is the destruction of the hard tooth tissue. For a tooth to decay four factors need to be present: a natural tooth or root surface, sugar, bacteria and the ...

Scientists have come up with a novel technique for treating decayed tooth to end painful fillings. Experts are testing a pain-free way dealing with rotten teeth that dispenses with the dentist's drill ...

WHEN Mary visited a dentist after suffering from severe toothache, she was told to choose between a root canal and tooth extraction. She chose to extract the tooth because it was cheaper. WHEN Mary ...

If good things come in small packages, imagine what smaller ones can do. Professor S Balakumar and researcher D Durgalakshmi at National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Madras ...

AT A CLINIC at the University of California, San Francisco, dentists in training hone their "drill-and-fill" skills for treating patients with cavities. But in a lab across the hall from the clinic, a ...