If you were to crack open a tooth, you’d find that it isn’t solid all the way through. Each of your teeth has a jelly-like core called tooth pulp or dental pulp. Your tooth pulp is protected by the ...

A team of researchers from Guatemala and Mexico has documented an exceptional discovery in Maya dental archaeology: a lower ...

What factors should dentists consider before extracting a badly decayed first permanent molar in a child, and what are the consequences of removing or restoring it? Since there's no clear consensus ...

Each year, dentists in the United States perform more than 15 million root canals on infected teeth, removing the inflamed pulp and filling the emptied canal with inert materials such as rubber and ...

Data sources Searches for reports were made using the Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE (January 1966–August 2002), EMbase (1980 ...