It provides a hard shell to protect your teeth from cracking and breaking. It also protects the inner layers of your teeth from damage. Despite being the hardest substance in your body, enamel is ...

Everyday wear and tear can take a significant toll on your teeth as you get older, so prioritising your oral health routine ...

When tooth enamel is lost or damaged, it doesn’t grow back, leading to cavities that need to be filled in by a dentist. One problem with current fillings is that they sometimes become loose or ...

"Because its composition is similar to that of tooth enamel, this HAp sheet can be used for the regeneration and protection of dentine," he and his colleagues wrote in a study testing the technology's ...

Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, protecting the innermost layers of the tooth, including the dentin and pulp. Some genetic disorders, however, result in weakened enamel that ...

On top of that, the thinning enamel can allow the yellow core of the tooth to become more visible. Grinding teeth at night and brushing too hard can also weaken and thin tooth enamel.

A new paper published December 19 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates new approaches to measuring differences in tooth composition at a previously unresearched, hard-to ...

In order to analyse the tooth enamel, the researchers embedded the teeth in resin and then cut them into wafer-thin slices some 150 micrometres thick.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo oral biologist Hyuk-Jae (Edward) Kwon recently published a study examining how the gene KMT2D (also known as MLL4) affects the development of tooth enamel. The ...