When enamel breaks down due to tooth decay or trauma, dentists do an admirable job patching things up with gold crowns and ceramic caps or composites. But no man-made material can compare to enamel, ...

No beauty category is immune to biomimetics. For hair care, researchers not only take a cue from insects and other external natural occurrences, but from what's going on in people's bodies, too.

Thick tooth enamel is one of the features that distinguishes our genus, Homo, from our primate relatives and forebears. A new study offers insight into exactly how evolution shaped our teeth, one ...

Unsightly cavity fillings may soon be a thing of the past. April 2, 2008 — -- The next time your children get cavities, they might get tooth regeneration instead of fillings. That's because ...

The Global Medical Biomimetics Market is projected to be valued at USD 35.68 billion in 2024 and reach USD 55.36 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7.6% according to a new report by The ...

Biomimetics is an interdisciplinary field in which principles from engineering, chemistry and biology are applied to the synthesis of materials, synthetic systems or machines that have functions ...

Aug. 23 -- FRIDAY, Aug. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Using lasers to spot troubled teeth before cavities form, researchers hope to turn the dentist's drill into a relic of the 20th century. The ...

Engineers make drones inspired by birds : Short Wave Millions of people in the U.S. are bird watchers. But a couple of years ago a satirical conspiracy theory gained popularity because of an ...

For humans, once our tooth enamel deteriorates, it's gone for good. A group of UW Medicine researchers has found a way to coax stem cells to help build enamel.