Tooth defects are an extremely common health condition that affects millions of individuals.
Currently used dental repair treatments include fillings for caries, endodontic treatment for …

The aim of this review is to highlight some key recent developments in studies of tooth
number, size and shape that are providing better insights into the roles of genetic …

Donor organ transplantation is currently an essential therapeutic approach to the
replacement of a dysfunctional organ as a result of disease, injury or aging in vivo. Recent …

The integument forms a number of different types of mineralized element, including dermal
denticles, scutes, ganoid scales, elasmoid scales, fin rays and osteoderms found in certain …

In humans, inherited variation in the number, size, and shape of teeth within the dentitions
are relatively common, while rarer defects of hard tissue formation, including amelogenesis …

Discrete dental traits are used as proxies for biological relatedness among modern human
populations and for alpha taxonomy and phylogeny reconstruction within the hominin clade …

Each vertebrate species displays specific tooth patterns in each quadrant of the jaw: the
mouse has one incisor and three molars, which develop at precise locations and at different …

One of the fascinating aspects of the history of life is the apparent increase in morphological
complexity through time, a well known example being mammalian cheek tooth evolution,,. In …

The tooth is an intricate composition of precisely patterned, mineralized matrices and soft
tissues. Mineralized tissues include enamel (produced by the epithelial cells called …

Our long-term objective is to develop methods to form, in the jaw, bioengineered
replacement teeth that exhibit physical properties and functions similar to those of natural …