How close are we to seeing the tooth regeneration breakthrough in everyday dental care? What if your body could just grow a new tooth? Scientists in Japan are working on a discovery that might make ...

Tooth loss affects millions around the world, caused by decay, gum disease, injuries, and some diseases. Missing teeth do more than make it hard to chew or talk. They also impact appearance and ...

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 ...

A pediatric dentist and an anthropologist explain how baby teeth and adult teeth help humans chomp their food over a long ...

Scientists have gotten one step closer to growing replacement teeth in the lab — a development that could pave the way for new alternatives to unpleasant dental fillings and root canals. The team ...