Tooth loss affects billions worldwide. A Kyoto University spinout is testing a drug called TRG-035 that could regrow real ...

A study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals. Now, the team has turned to a human clinical ...

Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, yet once damaged, it cannot regenerate naturally. To overcome this ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now, Japanese ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — University at Buffalo oral biologist Hyuk-Jae (Edward) Kwon recently published a study examining how the gene KMT2D (also known as MLL4) affects the development of tooth enamel. The ...

Although teething timelines vary from child to child, most babies get their first teeth between 4 and 7 months of age and have all 20 primary teeth by approximately 3 years old. While every child ...

A novel study on the natural coordination of tooth development in time and space, led by Dr. Han-Sung Jung at the Yonsei University College of Dentistry, Korea, has discovered that "lingual" cells on ...

"Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it?