Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For decades, dentists and scientists have dreamed of helping people regrow lost teeth. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) For decades, ...

A protein that quietly suppresses tooth growth may hold the key to regrowing teeth in adults, according to a line of research that has moved from mouse models to the doorstep of human clinical trials.

What if a missing tooth could be regrown, not by nature, but in a lab using your own cells? Scientists at King’s College London have found a way to grow living teeth in the lab, bringing this ...

Tooth development is a dynamic process that involves the stages of the bud, the cap, and the bell, followed by root development and subsequent tooth formation. Processes such as the bud-to-cap ...

Researchers at the University of Zurich Center for Dental Medicine recently studied the Notch pathway’s role in the evolution of tooth morphology, with their results being published in Cellular and ...

Sustained hypoxia affects orthodontic tooth movement (OTM) by altering osteoclast and osteoblast differentiation, report researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan. Hypoxic conditions ...

Beta-catenin is required in odontoblasts for tooth root formation, according to a new study in the Journal of Dental Research (January 23, 2012). While the molecular and cellular mechanisms of early ...