In continuing coverage, CBS News reported on its website and during a broadcast that researchers from the University of Nottingham and Harvard University’s Wyss Institute are “developing a new treatment strategy that could someday help heal a damaged tooth using the patient’s own stem cells.” The process involves “stimulating native stem cells inside teeth, triggering repair and regeneration of pulp tissues.” While “still in its early stages,” if the strategy is successful, “a treatment like this could someday offer significant benefits for millions of dental patients each year,” CBS News added.
Digital Trends reported the “groundbreaking dental treatment” involves “a filling-like material seeded with stem cells to promote properties that encourage the growth of inner tooth pulp and dentin, structural components of a tooth.”
HowStuffWorks added the new synthetic biomaterial is “now in preclinical trials,” and then must go through clinical trials. Adam Celiz, a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Nottingham, said, “It will be a few years before you probably see this material on the market.”
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