Regenerative Medicine Latest News: Synthetic Dental Biomaterial 'New Paradigm For Dental Treatments' Promote Autonomous Teeth Healing

A "new paradigm for dental treatments" allow teeth to heal autonomously. The regenerative dental fillings eliminate traditional forms of treatment like root canals.

The regenerative fillings work by stimulating stem cells to grow dentin. Dentin is the material that grows and surrounds most of the teeth. This technology is helpful for those people who are suffering from dental diseases by regrowing their teeth and possibly making it strong.

The "new paradigm for dental treatments" is an important move from ongoing treatment methods for curing cavities, which usually requires drilling out the decay and adding fillings. When the conventional procedure fails, a root canal is necessary in order to remove the tooth pulp and cause further damages to the underlying materials of the teeth.

A Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Nottingham Adam Celiz said that existing dental fillings are extremely harmful to cells and incompatible with the pulp tissue found inside the tooth. In instances of dental pulp disease and injury, a root canal is the main treatment to remove infected tissue, CNET reported.

The scientists have designed a synthetic biomaterial that is similar to dental tissue, but it can also be placed in direct contact with the pulp tissue for the needed stimulation of the stem cells to repair and regenerate the tissues surrounding the dentin.

Scientists are hopeful to develop future techniques with industrial partners to make this technology available to dental patients as an alternative treatment to current fillings, Daily Mail reported. Kyle Vining, a fellow at Wyss Institute at Harvard University said that they are excited about the promising outcome of therapeutic biomaterials for bringing regenerative medicine in restorative dentistry.

The regenerative dental filling technology was developed by scientists from the University of Nottingham and Harvard University. A prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry was awarded to the team after judges described the breakthrough medical technology as a new paradigm for dental treatments.