(WHDH) — A 7-year-old boy complaining about a swollen jaw recently underwent a dental procedure in which dentists removed more than 500 teeth from a mass that was growing in his jaw. Saveetha Dental ...

Scanning electron microscope image of wormlike structures 'growing' from dental tubules deep inside a molar. Image courtesy of University of Maryland, Baltimore. Inside a human tooth, more than 50,000 ...

A 7-year-old boy in India had 526 tooth-like structures removed from his mouth, according to doctors. The unidentified boy's parents took him to the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital in Chennai, ...

A study finds an early mammaliaform displaying tooth anatomy that gives insight into the development of structures such as complex molars and multiple roots. One evolutionary milestone in the ...

Leaf teeth, i.e. projections of the leaf margin, are common among angiosperms. These structures may differ in several aspects, e.g. in the presence or absence of an associated gland. Cucurbitoid teeth ...

Imagine a future in which a missing or damaged tooth isn’t replaced with a crown, denture or titanium implant, but simply regrown — biologically — from your own cells. That possibility is inching ...