Dental pulp injury caused by trauma or deep caries often leads to inflammation, tissue necrosis, and eventual loss of tooth vitality. In severe cases, bacterial invasion and sustained immune responses ...

Dental pulp regeneration remains a major clinical challenge. Researchers have discovered that SMAD7 directly forms a ...

Finally, in the early days, dental implants were an inconsistent and unproven treatment option. But that didn't deter Paul Schnitman, DDS, MSD, from learning everything he could about them -- ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close up on woman white teeth. Off the bat, why don’t we do this already? To better understand what we’re up against in this ...

Everyone is familiar with losing teeth because we all do it his children. However, once we become adults, tooth loss can create a significant problem. While children have adult teeth that come in to ...

In a remarkable breakthrough, scientists at King’s College London have successfully grown human teeth in a laboratory for the first time, offering a glimpse into a future where damaged or missing ...

Losing a tooth can be a frustrating and costly experience. Current solutions like dentures and implants can be expensive, uncomfortable, and require ongoing maintenance. But what if we could regrow ...

There are specific conditions that need to be met for the drug to regrow teeth — it might not spontaneously grow new teeth in just any person who takes it. A rumor has circulated online since at least ...

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 ...

Jason Morgan needs an implant. But like many dental implant candidates, his jaw bone is not strong enough to support it. The 34-year-old man's maxillary molar has been missing so long the bone has ...