Posts Tagged ‘tooth re-growth’
Scientists Look To Alligators To Solve Human Dental Problems
Scientists are investigating how alligators re-grow their teeth in a bid to solve human dental problems. Alligators can have around 80 teeth in their teeth at any given time and they produce around 50 sets of replacement teeth, meaning that in their lifetime, they can go through more than 2,000 teeth. The ability to re-grow […]
UK Researchers Use Gum Cells To Grow New Teeth
Researchers from King’s College London have used gum cells to grow new teeth; the project suggests that one day dentists could replace missing teeth with new teeth grown from gum cells. The research team took epithelial cells from the gums and combined them with mesenchyme cells from mice to grow new teeth; researchers used the […]
Edmonton professor gets the green light for study on tooth re-growth
A dental professor from Edmonton has secured a one million dollar grant to conduct a research project on tooth re-growth. Dr Tarek El-Bialy, from the University of Alberta, has been given the grant for three years by the Qatar National Research Foundation; he will use the money to fund his study on tooth re-growth. Four […]
