Putting in a false front tooth is a major feat in dental engineering. Usually dentists get around the difficulty by fitting their patients with removable bridges, often uncomfortable. Sometimes they ...

Prosthetic teeth could make great hearing aids. Vibrations applied to replacements for lost teeth travel well through jawbones to the inner ear, researchers report in the September Journal of the ...

Dentures have come a long way since your grandparents had them (some are now even 3D printed). And while you can still get full dentures which take up the entire roof of your mouth, there are other ...

A postal worker’s widow, and now a charwoman on Chicago’s North Side, Agnes Jones had to watch every penny. So she was delighted by a neighbor’s suggestion that a dental laboratory down the block ...