Wisdom Teeth News

Occasionally I write a column that for whatever reason does not make it into the paper.

When I was a kid I had braces. Not the kind of braces they have today -- I had the old-school railroad tracks.

Business, non-profit, academic and public sector leaders wrapped two days of discussions in Halifax on Friday, about how seniors can live more independently, actively and contribute to, and benefit from, the province's silver economy.

But what about our extinct relatives, the Neanderthals? A team of U.S. and Australian researchers reports in the journal Nature May 22 that they can now use fossil teeth to calculate when a Neanderthal baby was weaned.

Courtesy photo Shown above is the volunteer dental extraction team. From left are Ashley Allen, Dr.

It was lunchtime when Stacey'scaregiver, Ms Allen, instructed her to eat outside with the other wards.

YANMson's dentist. His bones are all fine, but his on-the-small-side mouth is equipped with two less than the regulation 32 teeth: one pre-molar missing upper right, and one pre-molar lower left.

Oh, you don't love spending time and money as a stranger picks, buffs, scrapes, fills or pulls your teeth? Join the club.

"You look at it side-to-side with 'meth mouth' or 'coke mouth,' it is startling to see the intensity and extent of damage more or less the same," said Dr.

The indigenous uprising is the latest incarnation of an age-old movement against colonialism.

Three-year-old Jacob Ryan is rushed to A&E after getting a five cent coin stuck between his front teeth.

ARE YOU unhappy with your smile? Just like a handshake, your smile is very important and can say a lot about you.

Q. Is napping in the afternoon a good idea? No doubts about this one. Napping is a very good idea.

Stress lines: A handout image showed stress lines in the enamel of a Neanderthal child's fossilized molar, top, denoted by the blue lines and numbers; and, below, four regions to show barium concentration - a means to measure changes in the child's diet.

It's not just a ubiquitous ad slogan - a primate infant's access to breast milk has significant consequences for a species' life cycle.

If you judged by the recent buzz in the media world, you might think that 3D printers are good for one thing only: creating untraceable guns, on demand, in the privacy of your home.

"This trip will hold a special place in my heart as one of those chance-of-a-lifetime experiences," says Liz Lake, CDT, a staff member at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine, Glendale, AZ, who recently returned from a dental mission on the South Pacific island of Tonga.

A baby Neanderthal who lived in what is now Belgium about 100,000 years ago started eating solid food at 7 months old, revealing a new aspect of the evolution of breast-feeding. The precision of this estimate is courtesy a new technique that uses elements in teeth to determine when breast-feeding started and stopped.

At False Bay, South Africa, great white sharks are infamous for their dramatic attacks on fur seals.

A general view shows the newsroom at the headquarters of the Qatar-based Al Jazeera English-language channel in Doha in this February 7, 2011 Photograph: Fadi Al-Assaad/REUTERS Last Tuesday, Al Jazeera English published a lengthy Op-Ed by Columbia professor and Middle East scholar Joseph Massad entitled "The Last of the Semites." Massad's argument ... (more)