title: Does epidermal growth factor control tooth eruption?
abstract: Despite active research for more than several decades the factors responsible for tooth eruption have remained obscure. For a tooth to emerge in the oral cavity, to reach occlusion, and to continue eruption in adulthood, many changes in the tooth and its surrounding tissues occur; these changes must be synchronized. Epidermal growth factor appears to be involved in the eruptive process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pedodontics and Orthodontics, University of Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Thesleff
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D014078:Tooth Eruption
chemical_list: D004815:Epidermal Growth Factor