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

New research from SUNY Polytechnic Institute introduces an innovative, eco-friendly method to enhance the performance and ...

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

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

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

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.

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 ...