Traditional dental treatments, such as fillings, involve adding foreign materials to the tooth to restore function temporarily, they do not regenerate the tooth’s natural structure. Regenerating ...

Tufts University researchers took material from human and pig teeth and were able to grow a tooth-like structure. They hope ...

But the price — at potentially thousands of dollars per tooth — might, for many people be a case of financially biting off more than they can chew. What if, instead, they could regrow their pearly ...

Researchers say they are one step closer to tooth regeneration in humans thanks to new developments in growing bioengineered ...

“We could, perhaps, use the stem cells that exist inside the tooth to regrow the living part of the tooth and then make a crown—just like we do now for a root canal—to bioengineer a new tooth.

Losing a tooth is tough. If we lose the small living ... If scientists can understand how pigs regrow and replace teeth so many times, Yelick said, they might be able to regrow teeth in people.