Your teeth play important roles in your daily life, but have you ever wondered how humans evolved to have them? Skin scales of fossil fish may have the answer.

“The resulting bioengineered tooth bud constructs were implanted ... pigs because of their mandibles’ “similar size and anatomy to human mandibles.” That must have been one heck of a ...

The newly reconstituted tooth germ, part human and part swine ... were chosen because their mandibles are similar in size and anatomy to that of humans). Researchers then placed the bioengineered ...

Sensory features on the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish may be the reason why humans have teeth that are sensitive to ...

Building off work published late last year in ACS Macro Letters, a team at King’s College London is developing methods for lab-grown replacement teeth and fillings made from human cells.

“This environment can be better adjusted to promote the process of tooth-making. With this, we might be one step closer to growing human teeth in a lab in the near future.” Xuechen ...

In a paper published in late December, a team at Tufts University reported having successfully grown human-like teeth in pigs. Pamela Yelick, a professor at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine and ...