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

REGROWING GUMS: You can add teeth and gums to the growing list of body parts that can partially repair themselves, thanks to a protein gel that stimulates new dental growth. The gel, called ...

Later on, Klein added, “if we can learn how other animals are able to regrow their teeth from stem cells, we could actually really grow a full, new tooth in vitro.” This isn’t something ...

Brace yourself — a new “miracle” drug that could regrow your own ... the growth of their teeth. The antibody for this gene, USAG-1, can help stimulate tooth growth if it is suppressed ...

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 ...

But the price — at potentially thousands of dollars per tooth — might, for many people be a case ... Putting RNA Where Your Mouth Is The idea of regrowing teeth is not so far-fetched, because humans ...

When you’re young, losing a tooth is a crucial step in one’s ... is set to launch human trials to test a drug that could regrow teeth. Toregram Biopharma, the startup associated with Kyoto ...

In the ferret study, the drug resulted in the growth of a new tooth (fourth from left), and it also strengthened bone in the existing set It resulted in new teeth emerging in the mouths of mice ...

When children lose their baby teeth, there is an adult set already growing beneath the gums, ready to emerge. But if we lose our permanent teeth, there aren't any more waiting in the wings.

Recent advancements in the field include regenerative tooth fillings to repair diseased teeth and stem cell technology to regrow the dental tissue of children.