The base of the tooth is called the root, which extends into the jawbone ... baby teeth fall out around age 6 and are replaced by permanent "adult" teeth. Teeth have limited ability to repair ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of ...

Simultaneously, the root continues its elongation to eventually ... It is about that time, around 12 years of age, that our ...

Everyone dreads hearing from their dentist that they will need a root canal. Thankfully, advancements in the area have made ...

Like tooth stem cells to build new teeth. Humans have these stem cells when we're younger. But after our adult teeth grow in, the stem cells die and disappear. To understand why, let's take a ...

With Radio 4’s In Our Time getting to the root of the issue ... these teeth start to fall out in order to make way for adult teeth. By the age of 12 to 14 we will have our adult teeth, of ...