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Holly Willoughby shares five-year-old son Chester’s sweet letter to the tooth fairy after he lost his first pearly white By Roxy Simons and Ryan Smith for MailOnline Published: 15:15 BST, 25 September 2020 | Updated: 15:15 BST, 25 September 2020 Holly Willoughby shared an amusing post as her youngest child Chester, five, lost his first … Read more
Ira Johnson is an 18-year-old explorer living in Missouri who made an astonishing find while walking along the Grand River – he discovered a fossilized mastodon tooth. Johnson noticed a ‘big rock’ near the water that seemed to be out of the ordinary and when he took it home, he realized it was an ancient … Read more
Ira Johnson is an 18-year-old explorer living in Missouri who made an astonishing find while walking along the Grand River – he discovered a fossilized mastodon tooth. Johnson noticed a ‘big rock’ near the water that seemed to be out of the ordinary and when he took it home, he realized it was an ancient … Read more
A milk tooth belonging to one of Italy’s last Neanderthal children has been found near Venice. The canine tooth belonged to a pre-teen, likely 11 or 12 years old, and dates back 45,000 years. Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago after being out-competed for food and shelter by the more intelligent Homo sapiens. An … Read more
A newly discovered fossilised ape tooth found in India is the earliest known ancestor of the modern-day gibbon and it lived 13 million years ago, study finds. The fossil belongs to a new species of ape named Kapi ramnagarensis and was discovered by fossil hunters at the Ramnager dig site in northern India. Experts from … Read more
A dental surgery has paid out £5,000 in compensation after a complaint of botched treatment by a woman called Miss Tooth. Johanna Tooth, 37, had been awarded the sum in an out of court settlement following a four-year ordeal. Lawyers claim she experienced painful infections, unnecessary loss of a tooth and difficulty eating after dentists … Read more
Dentists declare ‘mask mouth’ a new phenomenon as they see an explsoion in patients suffering from tooth decay and gum disease after wearing face coverings Two top dentists in New York City say mask-wearing makes people breathe through their nose and subsequently causes their mouth to dry out This results in a decrease of saliva … Read more
Big Brother runner-up Sophie Budack reveals her ‘tooth’ fell out on the show and a dentist was called in to fix it… as she recalls how a 13-year eating disorder has affected her teeth By Alisha Buaya For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:47 BST, 31 July 2020 | Updated: 01:53 BST, 31 July 2020 She … Read more
A single mother spent five months in hospital after an abscess on her tooth led to an infection on her brain. Rebecca Dalton, 35, suddenly saw her ‘personality change completely’ in March and thought she was suffering a mental breakdown. She had just finished a course of antibiotics for a small abscess on her upper wisdom … Read more
The first atomic-scale map of human enamel is helping to reveal how cavities form — and may even help experts reverse tooth decay, researchers have claimed. It was drawn up using a combination of advanced scanning techniques and chemical analysis, uncovering enamel’s structural makeup in unprecedented detail. Enamel is the outer protective layer on our … Read more