Dentistry has taken the same approach to tooth decay — filling cavities — for decades, but new techniques for rebuilding teeth from the inside out could transform the profession over the next decade.

Like something out of "Repo! The Genetic Opera," scientists have managed to grow human-like teeth in a lab — and implant them inside a miniature pig's mouth, in a harbinger of weird new frontiers for ...

Researchers from the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine have penned a new study published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine that details the process of growing a mix of human ...

If you’re missing teeth, there are many ways to fill in the gaps in your smile. One way is to use a flipper tooth, also called an acrylic removable partial denture. A flipper tooth is a removable ...

Human teeth evolved from the same genes that make the teeth of pufferfish, new research concludes. This research, say investigators, could be used to help address tooth loss in humans. Human teeth ...

The waves of tooth replacement which sweep through the jaws of reptiles vary in their steepness and direction in different species. Basing the analysis on a method introduced by De Mar (1972, 1973), ...