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3-D Printing a Better Prosthetic

Edit The Atlantic 29 Jul 2016
In 1981, Ian Gregson popped into the prosthetics shop in a Vancouver hospital to buy a new leg. The shopkeeper took various measurements, then made a plaster cast of the amputee’s residual limb to craft an attachment. “The leg was just trash ... For example, Amos Dudley, a college student studying digital design, recently fixed his own protruding and overlapping incisors at about 1 percent of the cost of orthodontic treatment ... ....

Chevy found a way to make the Corvette even better

Edit Mashable 27 Jul 2016
Growing up, my mother told me Corvettes were for men with severe emotional deficiencies who couldn't afford a Ferrari ... That was, until I finally drove one ... SEE ALSO ... And, really, dentists might want to consider employing the Grand Sport's brakes for molar removal, because a full-power stop nearly pulls loose even the healthiest and well-seated incisors. A full-power stop nearly pulls loose even the healthiest and well-seated incisors ... ....

University team hunting T. rex backed by crowdfunding

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 22 Jul 2016
Burnham, paleontologist, finder and preparer of fossils, had been ready to pack up and head home with his team of students and volunteers, back to the University of Kansas. Earlier expeditions had found about 15 percent of the specimen's bones, and now there suddenly was hope the rest would be uncovered ... rex fossil ... Posters of T. rex baring its gigantic serrated incisors plaster the walls ... The T ... [...] Burnham believes his T ... rex bones. > ....

Why Jeremy Corbyn would fit into the BBC's The Secret Agent

Edit New Statesman 21 Jul 2016
The BBC's new Joseph Conrad adaptation is wonderful, and more pertinent than I'd expected. Plus. Fleabag reviewed ... You can see why this one was commissioned ... the pretence, when a boy calls up late at night wanting to come over, that, no, she’s not remotely in bed; the horror when, having flirted on a bus with a good-looking guy, he suddenly smiles and shows a set of incisors that wouldn’t look shabby on a fully grown beaver....

Same Day Implants – A Quick Cosmetic Fix That You Will Never Want To Miss!

Edit Community news 19 Jul 2016
Same day implants are a perfect option for busy people who want to restore their mouth functions as quickly as possible. If gum diseases have deprived you of teeth, then turn to the latest advancement in dentistry- teeth in a day. You will love the option as it saves you from a long waiting ... The idea is getting popular due to the convenience it offers ... A patient can return home after getting an upper central incisor replacement ... ....

Woman found dead in Ohio 35 years ago may have been from or passed through southern Oklahoma before death

Edit The Oklahoman 15 Jul 2016
An unidentified woman found dead in an Ohio ditch 35 years ago might have spent time in southern Oklahoma or Texas before her death, new testing has determined. The victim's body was found April 24, 1981, in Miami County, Ohio. The woman, described as a homicide victim, had been dead less than two days when discovered in a ditch west of Troy, according to a news release ... A top right central incisor had a porcelain-metal crown....

Changes in primate teeth linked to rise of monkeys (University of California - Berkeley)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Jul 2016
(Source. University of California - Berkeley) ... The threat display of a Hamadryas baboon ... The rise of monkeys and the decline of apes ... (Photo by Leslea. Hlusko) ... Several years ago, Hlusko used thousands of pedigreed mouse skeletons in UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology to show that the front of the mouth - the canines and incisors - is under totally separate genetic control from the back of the mouth - the molars and premolars....

Pre-Aztec Skull With Stone-Encrusted Teeth Discovered At Ancient City In Mexico

Edit IFL Science 08 Jul 2016
Having originally unearthed the body in 2014, Velasco and his colleagues are now examining the many fascinating and surprising features of these incredible remains – such as the round pyrite stones encrusted into her two upper front teeth, as well as the serpentine implants that have been inserted in place of the lower incisors....

BMP modulators pattern mandibular incisors [Developmental Biology]>

Edit PNAS 05 Jul 2016
Cranial neural crest cells (crNCCs) migrate from the neural tube to the pharyngeal arches (PAs) of the developing embryo and, subsequently, differentiate into bone and connective tissue to form the mandible. Within the PAs, crNCCs respond to local signaling cues to partition into the proximo-distally oriented subdomains that convey positional... ....

Anna Kendrick says she wants to play this unlikely Marvel superhero

Edit Business Insider 05 Jul 2016
Anna Kendrick wants to play Squirrel Girl. Marvel might have another solo film to add to its Phase Three plans ... "I ... Green is also a high school student who has squirrel-like features, such as small claws and enlarged incisors. Needless to say, it would be a pretty interesting character to see Kendrick dive into ... ....

Why Did Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG' Flop?

Edit Rollingstone 05 Jul 2016
It turns out that the anything-goes murderfest The Purge. Election Year was not the grisliest bloodbath at the movies this past weekend ... For scale, consider that alarm klaxons started sounding when Alice Through the Looking Glass put up $33.5 million at the end of May. Sidebar ... So what happened? ... Lincoln had the benefit of the world's greatest living actor sinking his incisors into an already-iconic role ... ....

Oldest ancient human remains from Flores made public

Edit The Jakarta Post 10 Jun 2016
A joint team of researchers from the Indonesia Geology Agency’s geological survey center and the University of Wollongong, Australia, has published its findings on ancient human fossils found in Flores. Supplied with six teeth and jaw fossils, the researchers measured the age of the human remains using four different methods ...   ... water ... Fossils found in Mata Menge comprise molars, incisors, canines and mandible bones ... (ebf). ....

Fossils shed light on ancestors of ‘hobbits’

Edit The Jakarta Post 10 Jun 2016
Mika Puspaningrum, 30, felt lucky as she could directly observe the fossil of a prehistoric human being’s molar during her first field project at the Mata Menge excavation site in Soa Basin, Flores Island, about 74 kilometers from Liang Bua where the fossil of a Homo floresiensis was found ... They included a molar, an upper premolar, upper and lower central incisors and two lower deciduous canines ... ....
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