It wasn’t. The dentist explained that my son has congenitally missing adult tooth buds, which means that they failed to form in utero. While swimming in amniotic fluid, babies grow vital organs ...

Scientists have identified the protein that is responsible for stopping teeth from regenerating and got to work rethinking ...

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

It is these hidden buds that the tooth-regrowing drug taps into to help regrow missing teeth entirely. So far, the drug has seen very promising results from tests on mice and ferrets. Essentially ...

Missing teeth create consequences that extend far beyond cosmetic concerns, particularly affecting your digestive system and stomach health. When teeth are absent, the body’s ability to properly ...

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 ...

And now comes tooth regeneration: growing teeth in adults, on demand, to replace missing ones ... teeth are prolific sources of the kind of adult stem cells needed to grow new teeth for you ...