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...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...
While other teams have successfully grown partial tooth structures in labs, this is the first time researchers have also produced enamel, the hard outer layer of a tooth...
...work was initiated by a seed grant from the Medical School, which founded the Center for Craniofacial Tissue Engineering in 1999 with the aim of creating a biologic tooth, Donoff said...
...team created the teeth by taking unerupted pig tooth buds, breaking these tissues down to the cell level and coating a scaffold—or tooth mold—with as many cells as possible. The scaffold was then implanted in the blood-rich intestinal lining of rats...
...detour from this blueprint amounts to a tacit surrender to terrorism. Meanwhile, Democrats - and representatives for the roughly 600,000 civilian Defense Department employees who currently work under existing union labor rules, and whose status could be affected by any changes leveled at new HSD staff - are fighting him tooth and nail...