Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth.

Did ancient people living thousands of years ago really care about straight teeth? That's been the story for awhile, but evidence is lacking.

Hunter-gatherers had almost no malocclusion and dental crowding, and the condition first became common among the world's earliest farmers some 12,000 years ago in Southwest Asia, according to findings ...

THE initial thing that someone meeting you for the first time notices is your face. The lips or more accurately the mouth is the most significant and appealing feature of the face. Although the mouth ...

PubMed and Cochrane Library electronic databases were searched from 1966 to January 2005. Reference lists of the relevant studies were searched by hand. For inclusion, articles had to satisfy the ...