There’s a special type of pain when something that is just too cold hits your teeth. This pain is so visceral, medical textbooks written throughout human history have recounted tales of a “tooth worm, ...

Odontoblasts, the cells that form a tooth's dentin, have a newly discovered function: Sensing cold, which can trigger pain in teeth; but scientists have also found a way to block the pathway to ...

Tooth sensitivity caused by heat or cold typically occurs when a tooth’s outer protective layer, the enamel, has worn down. Receding gums that expose a tooth’s root may also be a cause. Share on ...

For people with tooth decay, drinking a cold beverage can be agony. "It's a unique kind of pain," says David Clapham, vice president and chief scientific officer of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ...

Researchers figured out how a jolt of discomfort gets from the damaged outside of your tooth to the nerves inside it. By Veronique Greenwood There’s nothing quite like the peculiar, bone-jarring ...

Researchers report in Science Advances that they have uncovered a new function for odontoblasts, the cells that form dentin, the shell beneath the tooth's enamel that encases the soft dental pulp ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nerves that sense the icy slap of an arctic wind or just a cool breeze take their orders from a single protein, U.S. researchers said on Monday, shedding new light on how we ...