Twice a week Lourie Ferreira heads out into rural Zambian communities to show God's love through dentistry.

The South Korean hit drama returns for a second season in December.

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2 Corinthians 6:1-10, Matthew 25: 14-30 A wasted life.

Toothpaste is for cleaning your pearly whites, right? True, but there are other cool uses for it that you may not know about. Here are nine of them.

Loss of megaherbivores such as elephants and hippos can allow woody plants and non-grassy herbs and flowering plants to encroach on grasslands in African national parks, according to a new University of Utah study, published Sept. 12 in Scientific Reports. The study used isotopes in hippopotamus teeth to find a shift in the diet of hippos over the course of a decade in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park following widespread elephant poaching in the 1970s.

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Dr. Peter Harris is excited to be providing Invisalign to his patients in Peachtree City.

Broken teeth are a common cosmetic dental problem. However, a broken tooth will not only distract from the appearance of your smile, it can result in pain, bite difficulties, gum disease, bone infections, and even the eventual loss of the tooth.

Professional Teeth Whitening Just Became More Convenient

Use of Proteomics for Dietary Reconstruction: A Case Study Using Animal Teeth from Ancient Mesopotamia  ACS Publications

As a kid, Ryanne Jones' friend accidentally hit her in the mouth with a hammer, knocking out her two front teeth. Her parents never had enough money for the dental care needed to fix them, so Ryanne lived much of her adult life with a chipped and crooked smile.

Ryanne spent a while as a single mom working low-wage jobs, but she had higher aspirations: she interviewed dozens of times a year for higher-paying roles that she was more than qualified for. But she never landed any of them. And to her, it really seemed like the only thing standing between her and a better job was her rotting, brown front teeth.

Our physical appearances can communicate a lot about our financial status. There are some things, such as clothing, that we have more control over. But there are other things that we don't — and they can have serious long-term economic consequences.

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Documenting the moment her Seattle Seahawks player husband was wheeled out post-op, the 'Like a Boy' singer can be heard suppressing her giggle as she says, 'Oh my god, this is ridiculous.'

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Jason Snell returns to the show to discuss the biggest threads from WWDC 2022 — in particular, Stage Manager and the M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook “Pro”. No sports talk (unless you count soccer).

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Sharks have been losing teeth for 400 million years. Here’s a guide to uncovering some of these plentiful fossils across the country

From birds and bats to horses and great apes, Bill Schutt's seriously fun history of teeth, Bite, explains their role in both shaping evolution and our understanding of it

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Dream about teeth falling out meaning often symbolizes anxiety, personal change, or fear of loss. Discover the deeper psychological and spiritual interpretations.

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A 3D model is created with human dental stem cells to use as the building blocks to restore damaged teeth, according to results of lab experiments reported

In a new technological breakthrough, scientists at the Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangaluru have developed tiny dental nanobots that can be

An alternative remedy for restoring the lost tissue in the tooth cavity by inducing the body to regenerate it has been found by researchers at the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine.

Extracted human teeth have long been used in conducting dental research, such as evaluating dental ceramic materials as crown restoration on a tooth.

Replacing missing teeth with a fixed prosthesis than a removable prosthesis may protect against cognitive decline, shows a new study presented at the

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Twice a week Lourie Ferreira heads out into rural Zambian communities to show God's love through dentistry.

Parliament recently amended the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act to give it more teeth and enable the ASI to effectively protect and develop the 4000 monuments it looks after. Conservationists have raised a cheer. But more is required to enforce the law.

Scientists in Japan have managed to grow teeth from stem cells, a development that could make dentures redundant.

Phase-contrast enhanced micro-computed tomography reveals huge discontinuities at the interfaces between dental fillings and the tooth substrate. Despite the complex micromorphology, gaps in bonding could be visualized and quantified in 3D.

The fossil teeth of a 15- to 18-million-year-old three-toed browsing horse, Anchitherium clarencei, were recently discovered by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the […]

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They found that the molars of fruit-eating species had sharp outer edges that likely allow them to pierce tough fruit skin and pulp... By contrast, the molars of insect-eating species were less complex, possibly because of their smoother shearing surfaces.

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Five new species of snail-eating snake, from a group of snakes affectionately known to scientists as “goo-eaters,” have been discovered by a team working in […]

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The discovery of starch granules in the calculus on Neandertal teeth provides direct evidence that they made sophisticated, thoughtful food choices and ate more nutrient-rich plants, for example date palms, legumes and grains such as barley.

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By charting the slopes and crags on animals’ teeth as if they were mountain ranges, scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have […]

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Scientists have uncovered the mystery of beak evolution.

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The biggest rodent to ever stalk the Earth lived about 3 million years ago — and it used its large front teeth the way today's elephants use their tusks.

The backwoods genius of 'Billy Bob's Gags to Riches' lives high off low-brow novelties.

It may be subliminal, but you transmit your fear to your dentist.