A new study challenges the belief that pulling wisdom teeth has a negative effect on taste. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine found that extraction not only can ...

[ Related: Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals. ] The study centers on the Zvejnieki cemetery site in northern Latvia. Dating back to about 7500 to 2500 BCE, more than 2,000 animal ...

Q: I’m getting a lot of advice during my pregnancy. Some of it is useful, but there have been a few old wives’ tales mixed in. A friend says you’re supposed to save your children’s baby teeth because ...

A 26-year-old woman experienced vertigo after having two teeth surgically removed, according to a case report published on August 13 in the British Dental Journal. Only four similar cases have been ...

Getting your wisdom teeth extracted might sound stressful and painful, but it’s something that many people experience. According to Gentle Dental, 70% of people will eventually need to get their ...

A correlation may exist between less mastication due to tooth loss and premature gray hair. This animal study, which is believed to be the first of its kind, was published recently in Genes to Cells.

I looked like a blowfish, but not of the Hootie variety. On Wednesday, I went to the dentist to have one of my upper right jaw teeth extracted. The right side of my face eventually swelled up to ...