New research suggests the wisdom teeth you had pulled may have held two secret abilities all along, scientists now confirm.

Wisdom teeth contain stem cells that can become nerve, heart and bone tissue, new research now clearly confirms.

In animals, the work has already produced new teeth. In humans, the most important question is still open. The work follows a ...

Activating a set of sleeping buds everyone has in their jaw could put an end to tooth loss in less than 5 years, says new ...

Tooth loss affects billions worldwide. A Kyoto University spinout is testing a drug called TRG-035 that could regrow real ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now, Japanese ...

Getting your wisdom teeth pulled has always felt like a quickly forgettable rite of passage. That framing is starting to look outdated. Two recent findings suggest the molars most oral surgeons drop ...