teeth
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Animal Teeth, Wood, And Porcelain: How The First Dentures Were Made
The human body is resilient, but not every part is replaceable internally. As a result, people are always on the lookout for better methods of transplant and prosthesis, which we’ve harnessed as medical tools since ancient times, particularly in our mouths.
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Colgate’s AI Toothbrush Makes Me Never Want To Brush My Teeth Again
Earlier this year, Colgate released a connected toothbrush, an artificially intelligent mouth cleaner that would be sold at Apple Stores for $130 a pop. It looks like most electric toothbrushes: thick handle, teeny head, buzzes when you turn it on. But this Colgate creation connects to your phone and teaches you how to brush your…
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Your Teeth Are Helping Scientists Build Better Aeroplanes
You might not think that the teeth in your mouth have much in common with the massive fangs you’ll find in a T-rex skull. But at the microscopic level, the core structure of tooth enamel hasn’t changed much over the ages. So, scientists are once again copying a tried-and-true Mother Nature design to potentially improve…
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Richard E. Grant Narrates This Gloriously Odd Short About Dental Health
Video: Daniel Grey and Tom Brown wrote, directed, designed, animated and produced Teeth, a droll yet sinister short about one man’s lifelong obsession with dental health. It builds to a gloriously icky finale, and it’s narrated with the perfect amount of rising disdain by Richard E. Grant.