Without good dental care, teeth tend to suffer. An abundance of archaeological evidence has shown that poor oral health was common throughout history. And unsurprisingly, there have been many attempts ...

An archaeological dig at the site of a 12th-century church in Scotland has unearthed more evidence that “advanced dental ...

Even today, many people dread a trip to the dentist, but in the Middle Ages, it was far worse—no anesthesia, no advanced tools, and often a visit to the local barber-surgeon or even a blacksmith.

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Fossilized dental calculi coat the teeth of a jaw dating back to about A.D. 1100, found at a medieval site in Dalheim, Germany.Christina Warriner Let plaque sit on your teeth, and it will harden into ...

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 ...

The communities of bacteria that live in our mouths have changed drastically since the Middle Ages, according to a new study of remains buried in a medieval Danish cemetery. And it turns out that some ...

Think of medieval England and you are likely to conjure up an image of a wizened hag with black stumps for teeth. But although that might have been the unfortunate state of some people's teeth, others ...

Tiny particles of the precious pigment lapis lazuli found in the teeth of a medieval woman suggest she was a scribe producing high-quality illustrated manuscripts. The discovery adds to evidence that ...