School of Dental Medicine in the Media

  • Scientists are regrowing human teeth

    While teeth play a greater role in health than many realise, current dental solutions for tooth loss are temporary and subpar. What if we could regrow our teeth instead? School of Dental Medicine Professor Pamela Yelick is quoted throughout the article.

    BBC

  • Can Food Actually Be Medicine? These Doctors Say Yes

    This story references and includes photos from the Culinary Medicine course created and offered by the Friedman School, in collaboration with Community Servings, to students across the Boston health sciences campus. Students are quoted, as well as course director Nadine Tassabehji, who is also identified with her TUSDM affiliation.

    New York Times

  • The science behind regrowing missing teeth

    This article reference research from TUSDM’s Pamela Yelick and Weibo Zhang to create bioengineered structures that resemble real human teeth by using a mixture of pig and human tooth cells.

    The Week

  • These Mini-Pigs Just Grew Human-Like Teeth-Here’s Why It Matters

    This article highlights new research from TUSDM’s Pamela Yelick and Weibo Zhang to grow a mixture of pig and human tooth cells in pieces of pig teeth to create bioengineered structures that resemble real human teeth. Yelick is quoted from an MIT Technology Review article.

    Gizmodo

  • Humanlike “teeth” have been grown in mini pigs

    TUSDM’s Pamela Yelick discusses her research with colleague Weibo Zhang to grow a mixture of pig and human tooth cells in pieces of pig teeth to create bioengineered structures that resemble real human teeth.


     

    MIT Technology Review

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