What is that how can a tooth survive the years and bear any intelligible mark of the molecules on its side when bone and other soft tissue have long since decayed? In the case of ancient-DNA, teeth ...

Potassium levels in dental calculus -- mineralized dental plaque that may preserve biochemical markers of systemic health -- may be a possible indicator of diabetes. The study was published in BMC ...

Chewing betel nuts seems to have been a human practice since the Bronze Age. Evidence regarding this was recently discovered through dental calculus samples from an individual buried in Nong Ratchawat ...

The remains in question range from about 5,500 to 1,000 years old and were discovered at several burial sites in Trentino and South Tyrol. Of the 20 individuals examined, 18 exhibited oral diseases, ...

Learn more about a new technology that is turning ancient teeth into one of archaeology’s most powerful tools. For decades, archaeologists have relied on chemical signatures locked inside ancient ...