The toothlike structures represent a step toward bioengineered replacements for dental implants, say researchers behind the work.

Researchers implanted a mix of human and pig tooth cells in mini pig jaws. This was not a pig used in the study. © Freepik When you lose a baby tooth, an adult one ...

The scientists combined human and pig tooth DNA in a tooth-like tissue and transferred it into the mouth of a miniature pig, and within months an organic tooth had formed that resembled one ...

In a new study, scientists from Tufts University of Dental Medicine in Boston, grew a combination of pig and human tooth cells in pieces of pig teeth to create human-like teeth in the animal’s ...

The researchers took cells from the enamel of pig teeth and cells from the dental pulp of human teeth, combined them with other human cells, and placed them on a biodegradable tooth-shaped frame ...

Stem cells were taken from human wisdom teeth, combined with epithelial cells from pig tissue and applied to a scaffold. The “tooth bud constructs” were then implanted into the mouths of adult ...

To accomplish this successful tooth regeneration, the researchers took living tissue from both human and pig teeth and combined them in a laboratory. From there, they transplanted the teeth into a ...