A revolutionary milestone in dentistry and genetics has set the stage for transformative medical treatments. The team of ...

Research groups around the world are working to find ways to implant or grow real biological teeth in a human jaw.

Some animals, like crocodiles and geckos, can regrow their teeth, replacing them throughout their lifetime. However, the ability to endlessly replace lost teeth has been beyond human reach for quite a ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, aka toothlessness. Now, Japanese ...

Off the bat, why don’t we do this already? To better understand what we’re up against in this toothy quest, Dr. Ophir Klein—a professor of orofacial sciences and pediatrics at the University of ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Can we regrow lost teeth? You might ...

Handout images from the Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital show before (top) and after images of the regrowth of teeth in a ferret (centre) and mice (R and L ...

For a long time, we have known that loss of bone or permanent teeth cannot be reversed. If you experience a chipped tooth or ...

In the future, there may be no need for dental bridges or dentures. A new tool has been patented that can regrow the roots of weakened teeth. The device, developed by University of Alberta scientists, ...

It may very well be possible to grow new teeth sometime in the future. In fact, a Japanese company working on a tooth-growing drug is just now slated to enter clinical trials, making it the world's ...