The Promise of Growing New Teeth

[barryqwalsh]

After harvesting the stem cells from healthy adult tooth pulp, Yelick’s team isolates them in the lab and gradually coaxes them into forming new tooth buds, the tiny clusters of soft tissue that eventually grow into a mature tooth.

It’s a revolutionary new way of treating damaged or missing teeth. Tooth buds, she says, are incredibly complex—they form only in conditions that mimic an embryonic jaw, in which bone, tooth, soft palate and gums are beginning to take shape.



The Promise of Growing New Teeth

 

[BarbaraOsburn]

Nice article. Thanks for sharing bro!

 

[anotherlife]

If Leonit Brezhnev had known this, he would not have died in tooth cancer, and the Soviet Union would still be standing.