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

The toothlike structures represent a step toward bioengineered replacements for dental implants, say researchers behind the work.

DINA GIESLER: The best way to describe a crown is it's a cap that we put on a tooth, and it's probably the best procedure we have to save a tooth. A patient needs a crown when the tooth has been ...

An ancient human tooth belonging to a child and stunning figurines were recently uncovered at the Acropolis of Amphipolis.

They obtained the materials from pig jawbones and human teeth extracted for orthodontic ... "When you think of a tooth crown or a dental implant, some of the methods that have been used have ...

Human life history differs in many ways from ... dentine: Mineralized tissue that makes up the inner core of a tooth crown, as well as the tooth root, which helps to anchor teeth into jaws.

Because dentists could grow human teeth within the next 20 years ... Department of Health figures also show one in 10 adults have fillings, crowns or bridges that hurt when they bite down.

The stem cells were implanted in the mandibles, or jaw, of the test pigs and were found to continue to grow, paving the way for a potential new viable method of lab-grown human teeth. The ...