| Dentistry has traveled a long way since time | | | | jaw bone of the patient with the tooth attached on top. |
| immemorial to this age of Computer. | | | | The process is painful and there is long healing |
| When an Adult loses a full grown tooth there were | | | | process. |
| only 2 options – Dentures or dental implants. Not | | | | The findings by the Columbia University researchers |
| any more. Researchers at Columbia University | | | | represent the first report of regeneration of |
| Medical Center have pioneered a technology that may | | | | anatomically shaped tooth-like structures in vivo, and |
| allow us to regrow our own teeth, in our own mouths. | | | | by cell homing without cell delivery. The potency of cell |
| The technique involves using stem cells to grow new | | | | homing is substantiated not only by cell recruitment into |
| teeth, and redirecting stem cells in the patient's body | | | | scaffold microchannels, but also by the regeneration of |
| to regenerate the tooth right where it was in the first | | | | periodontal ligaments and newly formed alveolar bone. |
| place. Thus, Dental implants and fillings could become | | | | The team of Columbia University researchers has |
| history. | | | | also successfully grown teeth in Animal testing. |
| A Dental Implant is employed, when a tooth cannot | | | | If the above method works, it would make little sense |
| be saved, or in cases where a tooth is lost. If you | | | | in the future to take care of cavities and other issues |
| have gaps in your smile where your teeth used to | | | | with fillings. Simply removing the tooth and growing it |
| reside, Dental implants along with artificial teeth are | | | | back may become the recommended course of |
| often a good option to fill the gaps left by the tooth | | | | action. This method allows the tooth to integrate itself |
| loss. However, the process of surgically inserting dental | | | | with the surrounding tissues. This technology will also |
| implants in a patient's mouth is horrifying. Dentists, | | | | cut down on artificial materials in people's mouths all |
| embed a cone shaped titanium screw directly into the | | | | over the world in the future. |