Lead Sentence of the Week honors go to Alister Doyle of Reuters, whose news report begins: Indigenous Sami peoples in the Arctic may have found a way to help their reindeer herds cope with climate change: more castration. (Thanks to investigator John Karp for bringing this to our attention.) Further detail appears in a pair […]
Tag: Teeth
Annals of optimism: Sharpe’s teeth
Another scientific breakthrough seen likely to improve lives almost immediately: This one is reported in The Guardian, under the headline “Grow-your-own to replace false teeth“: “Tests have shown the technique to work in mice, where new teeth took weeks to grow. There’s no reason why it shouldn’t work in humans, the principles are the same,” […]
A golden mean in your mouth
Dr Eddy Levin, of Harley Street in London, puts a golden ratio, not just golden teeth, into people’s mouths. Levin has been at this for a while. In 1978, he wrote a study called Dental Aesthetics and the Golden Proportion, which was published in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. The golden ratio is a special […]
Sounds from, if not like, teeth
The auditory capacities of teeth may be demonstrated through a simple test. First, find a quiet room to sit in. If you are wearing an analog watch, remove it from your wrist. Open your mouth wide and suspend the timepiece inside your mouth without actually touching your teeth. You will hear a quiet ticking. But […]