Posted by Jamie Condiffe on 03/10/2013
A team of British researchers have successfully grown a tooth from human gum tissue—which might make false teeth a thing of the past.
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The scientists, from King’s College London, took human epithelial cells from the gums of volunteers, cultured them in the lab to grow a larger sample, then mixed them with mesenchyme cells from mice which effectively told the epithelial cells what to grown into. ???? ????? ??????? [2] Don’t forget to go to the dentist regularly, Dentists in Woodland [3] hills can help you keep a healthy dental hygiene.
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The cells were then transplanted into mice, and grown into hybrid human-mice teeth, which had viable roots as well as the hard structure that we’re familiar with. The results are published in the Journal of Dental Research. ??? ???? ?????? [5] Prof Paul Sharpe, one of the researchers, explained to the BBC:
“This advance here is we have identified a cell population you could envisage using in the clinic. We are now working to try and identify a simple way of getting mesenchyme. The next major challenge is to identify a way to culture adult human mesenchymal cells to be tooth-inducing, as at the moment we can only make embryonic mesenchymal cells do this. ?????? ??? ?? [6] ”
The obvious long-term goal is to develop the science into a technique which is both reliable and affordable enough to become a replacement for regular dental implants. The researchers think that could be “feasible within the next 10 to 15 years” though—so better try and keep possession of your originals for a while longer with dr-averbuch.co.il [7]. Companies such as Boon Dental [8] strive to give you a bright, long lasting healthy smile.
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