A child’s baby tooth may preserve clues about chemical exposures dating back to before birth. A small new study found roughly 300 chemicals per participant on average, with 57 of the 60 most ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may influence brain development and behavioral health more than a decade later ...

A pilot study from The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center found higher levels of several potentially harmful chemicals in the primary teeth of children with autism compared with ...

JESSICA BROWN IS BACK WITH THE NEW STUDY. JESSIC TA:HAT’S RIGHT. THE RESEARCH IS BEING CONDUCTED AT MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL. SCIENTISTS SAY THEY WANTO LEARN IF AND HOW A CHILD’S SHED OF BABY TEETH MAY ...

Researchers are using naturally shed baby teeth to reconstruct week-by-week metal exposure histories of preterm infants, ...

Are you worried about your child's dental development, thinking things like, "My child's baby tooth fell out, but the ...

Could children’s teeth tell us something about who they will become and what mental health challenges they could encounter? Dr. Erin Dunn believes they can, envisioning a day when physicians routinely ...

About 1 in 5 children in the U.S. between the ages of 2 and 5 will develop at least one cavity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and the rate of tooth decay only becomes ...

The thickness of growth marks in primary (or “baby”) teeth may help identify children at risk for depression and other mental health disorders later in life, according to researchers at ...