Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply in 2011, but residents voted to reverse course after studies linked the move to worse dental health among children.
Tag: Teeth and Dentistry
Free Ambulances in Mogadishu, Thanks to This Determined Dentist
Dismayed that victims of the incessant violence in Somalia’s capital were being rolled to hospitals on wooden carts and in wheelbarrows, a dentist decided to do something about it.
The Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker Is Armed to the Teeth
The diminutive predator is a terrible swimmer but thrives in the intertidal zone thanks to odd evolutionary adaptation.
How the ‘Wandering Meatloaf’ Got Its Rock-Hard Teeth
The dentition of the gumboot chiton, a lumbering mollusk, contains a rare mineral never before seen in a living animal.