Abstract
Cell scaffold-based tooth engineering research was started by 2000 at Forsyth Institute corroborated with Dr. Vacanti’s team at Massachusetts General Hospital. The first work was published in 2002 in Journal of Dental Research, in which we particularly focused on cells from postnatal tooth because of its clinical application. However, making a functional tooth from postnatal cells is still ways away. Alternatively, we formulated a partial replacement of the tooth by engineering the root of the tooth. Here, we describe a new technique in which the root of the third molar is used to replace missing teeth.
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This work was supported in part by grants from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology [Kakenhi KibanB (20659305) to MH], and Dental Research Center, Nihon University School of Dentistry.
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Tsuchiya, S., Honda, M.J. (2012). In Vivo Transplantation and Tooth Repair. In: Kioussi, C. (eds) Odontogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 887. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-860-3_12
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