Following months of agonising toothache, 19th Century patients sometimes found their teeth shattering in their mouths – with a force that nearly knocked one woman over. In the 19th Century, a ...

"Can your teeth explode when flying?" my teenage son inquired hopefully as we boarded the plane for our summer hols this year. My affirming answer was prefaced by rapidly demolishing his gleeful image ...

IF YOU are suffering from nightly elbows in your back, you are possibly a nocturnal grinder who is driving your partner mad with the noise of gnashing your teeth together. Tooth grinding, or bruxism, ...

· A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick... · A remarkable woman who, like a human fountain, spurted urine from virtually every orifice... These are just a few of the anecdotal gems ...