Human tooth regrowth trials are underway in Japan, raising hopes that missing teeth could one day grow back naturally.

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, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now, Japanese ...

"Primary teeth provide a unique timeline of early life," Dr. Synnøve Stokke Jensen at the University of Bergen says. "They ...

Using data and biological samples from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) and the world`s larges ...

A tooth regrowth drug called TRG-035 is now in human trials in Japan. Here's what the science shows and what it could mean for millions with The post Japan’s Tooth-Regrowing Drug Just Passed Its First ...

Losing teeth has meant artificial replacements for centuries. Japanese researchers at Kyoto University Hospital are changing that with human trials of a drug that regrows natural teeth. By 2030, ...

It’s not surprising that many people fear the dentist. Replacing a tooth often requires invasive surgery and implanting a titanium screw into a patient’s jawbone, then waiting months for that to ...

"Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it?

Dental hard tissues comprise enamel, dentin, and cementum, with dentin forming the primary structural component of teeth. Produced by odontoblasts, dentin provides mechanical support and sensory ...

Dental tissues development involves two distinct cell lineages: mesenchymal cells (derived from the cranial neural crest) and epithelial cells (derived from oral ectoderm and pharyngeal epithelium).