New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair

Re:New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise to... by EvanAnderson on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @06:05PM (#45829277)

There has been a ton of research in the area of re-growing teeth from stem cells. A cursory search-engining will turn up a ton of articles, some going back decades, and many giving the impression that it's close to happening. I've been following it for awhile because I knew I'd be in the market for a new tooth eventually.

Here's an example of one from earlier this year at King's College, London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/lab-grown-teeth-might-become-an-a...

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Re:New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise to... by selcuka on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @07:41PM (#45830016)

There have been a lot of research around USAG-1, too [1]:

> Uterine sensitization-associated gene-1 (USAG-1) deficiency leads to enhanced bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling, leading to supernumerary teeth formation.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33579703/

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Re:New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise to... by EvanAnderson on Thursday November 06, 2025 @11:42AM (#45837152)

If that could be targeted at a given tooth site (i.e. I don't want to go thru another round of deciduous teeth across my entire mouth) that would be pretty cool. We're each carrying a perfect growth matrix for new teeth, after all.

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Re:New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise to... by thaumasiotes on Thursday November 06, 2025 @03:36PM (#45840076)

If it just repeated the process everyone is already familiar with, in which each of your teeth falls out and grows back in one at a time over a period of several years, it would already be a perfect solution to tooth decay and demand would be massive.

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