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 ...

The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing ...

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 ...

Looking to make more money from the Tooth Fairy? What if you could lose teeth but then continually grow them back? The income potential is life-changing (maybe to a 6-year-old). By the way, did you ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking breakthrough in dentistry and genetics may soon transform medical treatments in ways once thought impossible. A team of researchers in Japan, led by Katsu Takahashi, is developing a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — Bad news for the tooth fairy: ...

Japanese scientists have developed a treatment capable of regrowing teeth after they were thought to have been lost forever following an infection or a bad fall. Since the initial results have been so ...

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, ...

Scientists have developed a new way to repair teeth that uses laser light to stimulate the body's stem cells into forming dentin, the hard, bone-like tissue that makes up most of a tooth, Reuters ...

Tufts University researchers took material from human and pig teeth and were able to grow a tooth-like structure. They hope their findings could... Scientists grew human-like teeth in pigs. Could it ...