His friends call him 'Jaws' because he's got a second set of teeth just like sharks do." His adult tooth came through a year ago, when Zak was seven, with the others following shortly after.

The innovative new medicine helps treat people who don’t have a full set of adult teeth due to “congenital factors,” and researchers say it could be available for public use in 2030. If ...

They can, however, be collected from unerupted teeth present in pig jaws. Unlike humans, pigs can grow multiple sets of adult teeth, so their adult jaws contain additional tooth buds.

But a drug to make teeth regrow would be a world first. The research, led by the Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital in Osaka, Japan, aims to bring “a therapeutic drug for patients who lack a ...

Scientists are making significant strides in the development of a groundbreaking drug that could potentially enable the regrowth of teeth. Clinical trials are scheduled to commence in July next ...