Chitons are marine mollusks that can scrape off and feed on algae from rocky surfaces using their ultrahard magnetic teeth.

The recent commentary by Manning et al highlights difficulties comparing results of gastrointestinal microbiome cohort studies.1 They demonstrate how methodological heterogeneity can substantially ...

When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what ...

Beyond pain, impacted teeth frequently lead to significant and preventable damage to adjacent healthy teeth, challenging the ...

Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient ...

An unusual case of an impacted right maxillary third molar that was accidentally displaced into the maxillary sinus during exodontia and was surgically retrieved almost 2 years later is described. The ...

1 Department of Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, College of Dental Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 2 Health Promotion Research Group, Research Institute for Medical and ...

- make room for other teeth. After a tooth extraction, the part of the jaw bone that used to hold the tooth shrinks because it is no longer needed to support the tooth. If the bone shrinks too much, ...

This study compared primary and secondary healing and collagen membrane-based primary healing after surgical removal of partial erupted impacted 3Ms, evaluating the incidence of postoperative ...

Background: Third molar extraction, a common dental procedure, often involves complications, such as alveolar nerve injury. Accurate preoperative assessment of the extraction difficulty and nerve ...