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Growing Teeth from Dental Stem Cells

  • Writer: Shannon Norman-Kotre, DDS
    Shannon Norman-Kotre, DDS
  • May 30, 2016
  • 1 min read

Yet more promising research involving dental stem cells.

"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.

"Using stem cells is also a better solution than dentures, which some patients find uncomfortable, or fixed titanium implant."

Read more: http://now.tufts.edu/articles/promise-growing-new-teeth


 
 
 

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