Many dental care procedures require big decisions and getting dental implant restorations is no different. Researching your ...

Researchers have successfully implanted a "smart" tooth implant using a gentler form of surgery inside the mouths of rats. In ...

Anyone who has had a dental implant knows how alien it is to have a tooth-like thing in your mouth that isn’t really yours.

Dental implants look the part, but by design they can't replace actual teeth. Now scientists have developed an innovative new ...

Now, researchers want to bring back the feel of real teeth with a new generation of implants. They’ve designed an implant ...

Each year, millions of people in the U.S. get dental implants as a long-term, natural-looking fix for missing teeth. But ...

To address this problem, the Tufts team created a new kind of “smart” implant. It uses a soft, biodegradable coating that wraps around the titanium base. This coating contains stem cells and a special ...

Researchers from the Tufts University School of Dentistry and School of Medicine in the United States have created innovative ...

Titanium alloys are widely used in dental implants for their strength and corrosion resistance. However, these materials are bioinert and do not naturally integrate with bone tissue .