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Say cheese! A drug to regrow teeth is in clinical trials
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Japanese researchers are soon embarking on human clinical trials for a medicine that will help regrow teeth.
In what could bring hope to millions suffering from tooth loss due to cavities or dental diseases, researchers in Japan are developing a medicine that can regrow teeth. The human trials to test the drug - which will be the world's first of its kind - are set to begin in September. That could mean that the medicine becoming available by 2030. Developed by researchers at Kitano Hospital in Japan, the medicine regrows teeth by targeting a protein
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