A rare dental developmental abnormality, known as a protostylid and characterized as an extra cusp, caused a woman’s apical periodontitis, according to a case report published on August 28 in BMC Oral ...
Scientists have described the earliest known example of dentary bone with two rows of cusps on molars and double-rooted teeth. The new findings offer insight into mammal tooth evolution, particularly ...
Paleontologists at the University of Bonn (Germany) have succeeded in reconstructing the chewing motion of an early mammal that lived almost 150 million years ago. This showed that its teeth worked ...