We’re excited to announce that Tooth Engineers is now live on Medium, on which we will be publishing content related to latest dental science trends and dental innovations. Check out below to see an excerpt of our first Medium article to learn what it means to be a Tooth Engineer.
Excerpt: What It Means To Be a Tooth Engineer
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If you are among the 90% of adults in the US that have had a cavity, then you may have experienced some of the inadequacies of cavity treatment. As the need for treatment grows each year due to increasingly sugary diets and greater prevalence of periodontal disease (another leading cause of tooth loss), it becomes easy to wonder — could there be a better way to repair or even replace teeth?
The good news is that the future of tooth restoration may lie not just in repairing damage, but in regenerating lost dental tissue. The concept of tissue engineering first came into the limelight in 1997, when a group of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, MIT, and Children’s Hospital collaborated to develop an artificial human ear using cow cartilage cells seeded into a polymer-based scaffold. This construct was infamously implanted on the back of a mouse, named the ‘Vacanti Mouse’ after the lead researcher/surgeon, and demonstrated significant cartilage development post-implantation. Since then, significant research and resources have been directed towards tissue engineering for the purposes of regenerating just about every human tissue and organ. In all cases, regenerative tissue engineered technologies involves the precise coordination of engineered materials, regenerative cells, and molecular factors to guide repair of damaged tissue.
Tooth engineering is a sub field of tissue engineering, an ambitious field of study that aims to develop regenerative therapies for lost or severely damaged tissues and organs. Overall, this field of study offers a glimpse into a world where teeth can heal themselves. With advancements in biomaterials, stem cell research, and dental molecular biology, the dream of regenerating damaged teeth is getting closer than ever before. Tooth engineering offers a beacon of hope for all who wish to fully restore the bright, healthy smile they once had.
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