In November 2001, Jack Nicholson had a problem: The producers of a shopping channel in the United Kingdom claimed to have possession of his baby teeth and planned to auction them off on live TV. The ...

Like most mammals, humans are diphyodont: We have two sets of teeth – baby teeth and adult teeth. The technical term for our ...

Children have 20 milk teeth, 10 in each jaw. This set of teeth is important for chewing and speaking, and helps to keep space ...

This kind of smile happens in one in 2,000 to 3,000 newborns. — -- Alyssa Bailey was born three days after Christmas with a little something extra -- two bottom front teeth. The doctors and ...

New research indicates that a mother's hormone levels during pregnancy, particularly stress-related ones like cortisol, may ...