Dental Fillings Heal Teeth with Stem Cells

Researchers have developed regenerative dental fillings that will heal the tooth once they are inserted. Scientists from University of Nottingham and Harvard University have received an award for the treatment procedure.

Key takeaways:

• Regenerative dental fillings have been described as a new dental paradigm for dental treatments.
• These fillings stimulate stem cells to grow new dentin which effectively leads to growth of new teeth.
• This restorative treatment makes use of therapeutic biomaterials that trigger this new application of stem cells.

“We have designed synthetic biomaterials that can be used similarly to dental fillings but can be placed in direct contact with pulp tissue to stimulate the native stem cell population for repair and regeneration of pulp tissue and the surrounding dentin.”

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