Ever wondered why our teeth are so sensitive to pain? It might be because they first evolved for a very different purpose ...

A new study reveals that the sensitivity of teeth, which makes them zing in a dentist's chair or ache after biting into something cold ... to sense chemistry in the water. DANIEL: So Haridy ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, fish had sensory features on their exoskeletons that contained dentine, the material that makes our teeth sensitive today ...

In work that she and her colleagues have published in the journal Nature, they find that the sensitivity ... sense the water around them. Hundreds of millions of years later, our teeth — which ...

New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

No matter the cause, cavities are not uncommon. The U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research reports that ...

The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from ... or maybe it could sense when the water got too cold and it needed to swim elsewhere,” said lead study author Dr. Yara Haridy ...