Pexels But what if, instead of needing that expensive (and often uncomfortable) dental work, you could regrow your teeth ...

Dental implants are an effective way of replacing lost or damaged adult teeth. It’s a procedure where your dentist places a metal post into the bone of your jaw in place of a missing tooth.

We see this trend happening in dentistry with root canal treatment versus the placement of implants for restoring a tooth.  In general, dental implants are a very popular, well advertised treatment.

People with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones ... administering an experimental medicine to adult test subjects that they say has the potential to jumpstart the growth of these concealed ...

Scientists in the U.K. have developed a new material that may allow them to grow teeth in the lab, which could provide an alternative to fillings and dental implants someday.

The average adult human body contains 206 bones ... this study focuses on 30 males between the ages of 30 and 64—each missing at least one tooth. The drug will be administered intravenously ...

Researchers are then looking at expanding the trial to those with partial edentulism, or people missing one to five permanent teeth due to environmental factors. The incidence of this varies from ...