Dental Implants May Soon Include Stem Cells

June 1, 2010 By Julie Frey 4 Comments

Dental implants are already cutting-edge dental technology… but the next generation of replacement teeth may allow doctors to use your stem cells to grow your own replacement tooth.

There's no titanium tooth implant. With stem cells and growth enhancers, a scaffold can become a tooth in as little as nine weeks.

Most dentists find dental implants rewarding. This new dental implant technology is still is research, and the cost of dental implants won't be dropping anytime soon. But stem cells just may be the new titanium.

The study, led by Dr. Jeremy Mao of Columbia University Medical Center, was published in the Journal of Dental Research.

Read more at Popular Science: Stem-Cell Dental Implants Grow New Teeth Right In Your Mouth

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Filed Under: Dental Implants, Science & Technology Tagged With: dental implants, stem cells, tooth implant

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Julie Frey is the Editor of TheWealthyDentist.com blog. She has dedicated her career to Internet marketing and communications, working side-by-side with dental marketing guru Jim Du Molin since 2006. She has a degree in Linguistics from Stanford University, has a passion for language and writing, and lives in San Francisco. Julie Frey+

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stuart garrelick

at a recent AAO meeting a speaker addressed the possibility of stem cells used in conjunction with implants to grow a periodontal membrane which could allow the implant to erupt in a growing person.
http://www.dentistinmelbourne.net.au/consulation/ Jake Charlebois

From my point of view(and I’m a dentist) this was a very interesting read. Too bad there is not more of this online?
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