It’s not surprising that many people fear the dentist. Replacing a tooth often requires invasive surgery and implanting a titanium screw into a patient’s jawbone, then waiting months for that to ...

Losing a tooth is tough. If we lose the small living structures that help us chew our food, we're left with the options of replacing them with dentures or implants that can be costly. Beyond that, ...

Like something out of “Repo! The Genetic Opera,” scientists have managed to grow human-like teeth in a lab — and implant them inside a miniature pig’s mouth, in a harbinger of weird new frontiers for ...

Tufts University researchers took material from human and pig teeth and were able to grow a tooth-like structure. They hope their findings could... Scientists grew human-like teeth in pigs. Could it ...