Bioengineered tooth "grows" in place to look and feel like the real thing By Bronwyn Thompson June 11, 2025 This "smart" implant grows new tissue and forms connections to existing nerves ...

Each year, millions of people in the U.S. get dental implants as a long-term, natural-looking fix for missing teeth. But traditional implants don't fully mimic real teeth.

“This new implant and minimally invasive technique should help reconnect nerves, allowing the implant to ‘talk’ to the brain much like a real tooth,” Chen said. In the study, six weeks after the ...

Anyone who has had a dental implant knows how alien it is to have a tooth-like thing in your mouth that isn’t really yours. Although millions of people have these long-term, natural-looking ...

Your real teeth — you can feel them chatter, grind, and push onto stuff. When you chew, you feel it with your tiny nerve endings. For decades, this sensory feedback — known as dental proprioception — ...

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-99923-8 "This new implant and minimally invasive technique should help reconnect nerves, allowing the implant to 'talk' to the brain much like a real tooth," explains Chen.

Scientists discover that dental pulp stem cells from wisdom teeth could regenerate neurons and bones and offer treatments for ...

Dental implants could feel and function more like natural teeth, thanks to work by Tufts researchers to develop a smart implant and less invasive surgery.

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