title: In vivo transplantation and tooth repair.
abstract: Cell scaffold-based tooth engineering research was started by 2000 at Forsyth Institute corroborated with Dr. Vacanti's team at Massachusetts General Hospital. The first work was published in 2002 in Journal of Dental Research, in which we particularly focused on cells from postnatal tooth because of its clinical application. However, making a functional tooth from postnatal cells is still ways away. Alternatively, we formulated a partial replacement of the tooth by engineering the root of the tooth. Here, we describe a new technique in which the root of the third molar is used to replace missing teeth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Shuhei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsuchiya
authors.forename: Masaki J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Honda
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003743:Dental Enamel / Q000166:cytology; D003782:Dental Pulp / Q000166:cytology; D003795:Dental Sac / Q000166:cytology; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D013552:Swine; D023822:Tissue Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D014070:Tooth / Q000166:cytology*; D014083:Tooth Germ / Q000166:cytology; D014092:Tooth Root / Q000166:cytology