Tag: Pamela Yelick

  • Science & Tech

    Regrowing missing teeth may someday be possibility

    Regrowing missing teeth may someday be a possibility, based on work by a team of scientists at the Forsyth Institute, an independent, Harvard-affiliated research organization specializing in oral and craniofacial biology. Pamela Yelick, an assistant staff member at the Forsyth Institute and an instructor in oral and developmental biology at the Harvard School of Dental…

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  • Health

    Mammalian teeth regrown in lab

    A study involved seeding cells from the immature teeth of six-month old pigs onto biodegradable polymer scaffolds. The researchers then placed these structures into rat hosts. Within 30 weeks, small, recognizable tooth crowns had formed. These contained dentin; odontoblasts, cells that secrete dentin-forming protein; a well-defined pulp chamber; Hertwig’s root sheath epithelia; cementoblasts, which form…

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