Most people know wisdom teeth as the unwanted guests of adulthood. They usually arrive late, often bring pain, and in many ...

Getting your wisdom teeth pulled has always felt like a quickly forgettable rite of passage. That framing is starting to look outdated. Two recent findings suggest the molars most oral surgeons drop ...

New research suggests the wisdom teeth you had pulled may have held two secret abilities all along, scientists now confirm.

Do wisdom teeth always have to be removed? For a long time, extracting the back molars was considered a routine procedure. Today, specialists assess the question much more differently: Many wisdom ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

The Citywide Dental Clinic, a monthly free public pop-up dental clinic in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District organized by ...

Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, eyes, teeth, pelvis, and even certain nerves all reveal compromises that ...

The Futura Team represents the pulse of Futura’s editorial department, bringing together a collective expertise dedicated to the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Rather than the work of a single ...