The sometimes uncomfortable sensations we feel in our teeth may be an evolutionary holdover from the scaly exteriors of ...

Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their original function hundreds ...

When trying to determine the origins of teeth, one of the many possibilities considered by researchers over the years was ...

Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives ...

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, fish had sensory features on their exoskeletons that contained dentine, the material that makes our teeth sensitive today ...

New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

No matter the cause, cavities are not uncommon. The U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research reports that nearly 90% of adults have had cavities in their teeth. In fact, "tooth ...