Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows how a protein-based material can guide mineral growth and rebuild worn enamel. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA ...

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(CN) – Potentially resolving a longstanding issue in dentistry, researchers reported Friday they have developed a new way to grow mineralized materials capable of regenerating hard tissues, including ...

Electron microscopy images of a tooth with demineralised enamel showing eroded apatite crystals (left) and a similar demineralised tooth after a 2-week treatment showing epitaxially regenerated enamel ...

An innovative developmental biology study relates amelotin with tooth enamel defects and enamel formation. "This is a significant study because it is the first report of a basement membrane protein ...

A mutation in the ORAI1 gene--studied in a human patient and mice--leads to a loss of calcium in enamel cells and results in defective dental enamel mineralization, finds a study led by researchers at ...

It is one of the mysteries of biology: How does tooth enamel, the hardest mineral in the mammalian body, emerge from soft, organic gum tissue? An important part of the answer appears in a report in ...

Amino acids have been discovered in 48-million-year-old fossil teeth, revealing new insights into ancient life and evolution ...