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

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 ...

If you’re one of the millions of people who have a gaping space in your gums where a tooth used to be, there’s reason to hope you might not have to spend the rest of your days with an uneven smile or ...

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 ...

Much like Floyd Mayweather, genetics is a tough opponent to beat. You may prolong the match, but eventually those 12 rounds will come to an end and you’ll find yourself defeated. Some unfortunate ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of ...

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 ...