Teeth help animals bite and chew food. Meat-eating carnivores tend to have sharp teeth to sink into their prey, while herbivores tend to have flatter teeth to grind down their plant-based meals. Some ...

New research indicates that a mother's hormone levels during pregnancy, particularly stress-related ones like cortisol, may influence the timing of a baby's first tooth eruption. Higher maternal ...

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A new birth cohort study reveals that a mother’s stress-related hormones in late pregnancy, especially cortisol, may quietly influence when her baby’s first teeth appear, uncovering a surprising link ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “Baby Shark” — a video version of a children’s song and associated dance — has been seen more than 16bn times ...

Children have 20 milk teeth, 10 in each jaw. This set of teeth is important for chewing and speaking, and helps to keep space open for the subsequent set of 32 permanent teeth. Milk teeth begin to ...

“I’m here to tell our story,” says Alison Ratcliffe, as she sits down on a carpeted stairway among a flood of tweed jackets inside a NFU-hired conference centre in central London. The 59-year-old ...