The human body is remarkably good at handling repairs. Cut the skin, and the blood will clot over the wound and the healing process begins. Break a bone, and the body will knit it back together as ...

For more than a century, dentistry has focused on repairing or replacing damaged teeth, not growing new ones. That assumption is now under direct challenge, as Japanese teams move a first-of-its-kind ...

What if losing a tooth were no longer inevitable? Researchers are getting closer to the feat of regrowing natural teeth in adults, perhaps heralding the end of implants and dentures. Tooth loss is a ...