With age, teeth get increasingly brittle and susceptible to damage from tooth decay, which can eventually lead to tooth loss. Teeth have an intrinsic capability to regenerate, a process that is driven ...

In the early 2000s, dental clinician and stem cell researcher Songtao Shi’s six-year-old daughter lost her first tooth. Curious, Shi, then at the University of Pennsylvania, took a closer look at its ...

As people get older, teeth become more fragile and vulnerable to tooth decay. But younger teeth are more resilient. Within teeth are cells called odontoblasts that produce the important structural ...

Stem cell applications in dental tissue regeneration harness the capacity of various postnatal and embryonic stem cell populations to restore or replace damaged dental structures. Central to this ...