teeth
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3D Printing Your Own Braces Works And Is A Terrible Idea
At the age of nine, I became the first kid in my primary school class to get braces. They did their job, but by the time I left university, I’d lost my retainers and my teeth had drifted back into disarray. Imagine the feeling of kinship, then, when I saw a blog post by a…
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How Braces Can Amazingly Straighten Crooked Teeth
Video: Getting braces for crooked teeth is one of our society’s accepted forms of self-torture for the sake of vanity. It’s completely painful and usually done in a terribly awkward stage in life, but it’s worth it in the end, not just for the sight of straight teeth, but for the pure functionality of improving…
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There Are Cells Inside Teeth That Can Turn Back Into Stem Cells
Inside each of our hard, calcified teeth is a small population of living stem cells that can differentiate into many types of tissue. The origin of those stem cells has long been unknown, but scientists may now have a completely surprising answer: Cells of the nervous system can migrate into the middle of a tooth…
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I Love To Spy Grizzly Bears So Close That I Can Count Their Teeth
Brad Josephs shot this super up close and very personal footage of Alaskan Grizzlies and I am not ashamed to say I gasped when the hairy behemoth bares its chompers around 0:53. It’s amazing to see them play and hunt in their natural habitat from this perspective.