Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

For more than a century, dentistry has focused on repairing or replacing damaged teeth, not growing new ones. That assumption ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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: ...

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 ...

Losing your teeth is one of many folks' greatest fears and is fodder for many disturbing nightmares. Replacing lost teeth is yet another dreadful experience, not just because visiting the dentist can ...

People with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones, say Japanese dentists testing a pioneering drug they hope will offer an alternative to dentures and implants. Unlike reptiles and fish, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

People with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones, say Japanese dentists testing a pioneering drug they hope will offer an alternative to dentures and implants. Unlike reptiles and fish, which ...