Researchers like me are still deepening our understanding of tooth development, with the ultimate goal of serving patients with on-demand regrown ones.In the process, I have developed reverence for ...

Around their roots, teeth develop layers of a substance called cementum, which also can retain signatures of significant life ...

For anchorage, the cementum, ligament and bone grip the tooth at its root portion that is buried under the gum. The ligament, a soft tissue that is about 0.2 millimetres wide (about the diameter of ...

Teeth are amazing little miracles. They light up our smiles, we use them to speak and we chew with them more than 600 times ...

Surprisingly, cementum (the interface between the alveolar bone and the root dentin) remains the least studied dental tissue even though its unique growth, which is continuous throughout life, has ...

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To start with, our tooth has been broadly divided into four parts—the enamel, the dentine, the cementum and the pulp. “The enamel is a highly mineralised crystalline structure which protects the outer ...

Another way to estimate age is to use a microscope to count the yearly additions of a mineralized tissue called cementum on ...

Our teeth have a crown which is completely covered in enamel. In contrast, horses cheek teeth have enamel, dentine and cementum making up the crown of the tooth. Each of these substances wear down at ...

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Tomographic imaging of unique objects: annual layers in tooth cementum of Anna Catharina Bischoff born 1719. p. 59. Müller, Bert Stiefel, Muriel Rodgers, Griffin Humbel, Mattia Osterwalder, Melissa ...

Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been ...