Dental and Oral Health

Biography

Biography: Boyen Huang

Abstract

Replacing missing teeth with approaches other than dental prosthetics has become a focus in dental research over the decade. The non-prosthetic approaches proposed included scaffold-based tooth regeneration, cell pellet engineering, gene-manipulated tooth regeneration and inductive formation of the third dentition. Although supernumerary teeth have been considered as a dental disease or a sign of genetic disorders, recent research in formation of supernumerary teeth implied a pathway to tooth regeneration. Using murine models, several genes relevant to the mechanisms were identified. The presenter will outline research findings of his team and other colleagues and suggest a potential direction of future molecularly targeted therapy to replace missing teeth.