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Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Forsyth Institute have discovered a way to grow living teeth in a laboratory—an advance which may herald a revolutionary method for replacing human dental tissue...
...discovery not only suggests a biological method to repair dental problems, but also points to the existence of dental stem cells which could be manipulated to grow into many forms of dental tissue, said John D. Bartlett, an assistant professor at the Harvard Medical School who worked on the research team...
...Long term, this work may lead to methods for reconstituting the components of teeth to replace restorative materials like amalgam,” R. Bruce Donoff, dean of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, wrote in an e-mail. “If a functioning biologic tooth were to be developed for human use, it would challenge dental implants as an alternative...
Ultimately, doctors may be able to take human dental cells and induce them to grow into usable teeth, Bartlett said...
...researchers’ findings will be published in the Oct. 1 Journal of Dental Research...