In fact, a survey commissioned by the American Association of Endodontists found 61% of Americans would prefer a treatment that saves their natural tooth and about 78% would do almost anything to ...

A root canal is a dental procedure that gets rid of damage in your tooth’s roots while preserving your natural tooth. Root canals become necessary when infection or inflammation develops in the soft ...

A tooth discovered in a Siberian cave shows our extinct cousins used stone tools to conduct dental treatment.

A newly discovered pair of stem cell lineages drives the formation of both tooth roots and the bone that anchors them. Understanding how these cells switch roles could pave the way for regenerating ...

American Association of Endodontists reports that only 27% of U.S. adults know they have 30 minutes to save a knocked-out ...

Scientists dug up a Paleolithic tooth that shows signs that these hominins may have been capable of executing a precise ...

A root canal ranks high on most people's list of dreaded dental procedures, and it results in a dead tooth susceptible to further decay. Now scientists have developed a peptide hydrogel designed to ...