Human tooth regrowth trials are underway in Japan, raising hopes that missing teeth could one day grow back naturally.

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now, Japanese ...

In 2023, Japanese pharmaceutical company Toregem Biopharma announced that it had found a new way to inhibit a gene ...

Losing teeth has meant artificial replacements for centuries. Japanese researchers at Kyoto University Hospital are changing that with human trials of a drug that regrows natural teeth. By 2030, ...

A tooth regrowth drug called TRG-035 is now in human trials in Japan. Here's what the science shows and what it could mean for millions with The post Japan’s Tooth-Regrowing Drug Just Passed Its First ...

"Human children grow at a uniquely slow pace by comparison with other mammals. When and where did this schedule evolve? Have technological advances, farming and cities had any effect upon it?

"Primary teeth provide a unique timeline of early life," Dr. Synnøve Stokke Jensen at the University of Bergen says. "They ...