A Japanese pharmaceutical company announced it created the first-ever medicine that grows teeth. Kyodo News reported people have “tooth buds” that can grow and become new teeth. Toregem Biopharma made ...

For more than a century, dentistry has focused on repairing or replacing damaged teeth, not growing new ones. That assumption is now under direct challenge, as Japanese teams move a first-of-its-kind ...

People with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones, say Japanese dentists testing a pioneering drug they hope will offer an alternative to dentures and implants. Unlike reptiles and fish, which ...

A Japanese startup, Toregram Biopharma, began human trials for a drug aimed at regrowing teeth, planning to market it by 2030. The drug targets a protein to stimulate tooth growth, initially tested ...

Japanese scientists have been working on a new drug that could help people grow new teeth, after they've lost them due to decay or genetic defects. The incredible results from pharmaceutical start-up ...

Humans naturally produce only two sets of teeth in their lifetime, so tooth loss due to injury or disease is fairly common. Lost teeth are replaced, not restored, with dentures, fillings, or implants.

Rejoice, hockey players: scientists may have found a way for us to regrow our own lost teeth. Researchers from the Tokyo Medical and Dental University and the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology ...