# Can teeth in an adult be regrown? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 7, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708 "2007-08-07T03:40:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sumisu\_919](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Sumisu\_919](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sumisu_919)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708/1 "2007-08-07T03:40:03Z")
According to this site: [http://www.mtbeurope.info/news/2006/607003.htm](http://www.mtbeurope.info/news/2006/607003.htm) Some Canadian researchers have developed a device that will do it with ultrasound. What’s the dope on that? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708/2 "2007-08-07T04:01:39Z")
If thats the story I think it is, they are talking about just regrowing the root of the tooth not regrowing an actual whole tooth or the enamel. But I also recall in England they are working on actually being able to regrow a whole tooth, I may be misremembering but it involved stem cells possibly? Anyway the England study said they may be able to regrow whole teeth in about 5 years and the story came out 2-3 years ago so it may be just over the horizon. If I recall the process would take about 2 months. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708/3 "2007-08-07T04:03:35Z")
Here is the article that I referenced: [http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/05/03/teeth.replace/](http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/05/03/teeth.replace/) ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708/4 "2007-08-07T12:26:41Z")
Dear God please make it be true. ::smacks gums together and drools down shirt front:: ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708/5 "2007-08-07T12:30:03Z")
This would have been an ogsend to my friend Fran, whose teeth _all_ (but 8 or 9 front ones) went south by her 40s. She is now having $60 friggn thou worth of implants put in. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BrandonR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@BrandonR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrandonR)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708/6 "2007-08-07T13:45:34Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Dear God please make it be true. ::smacks gums together and drools down shirt front:: [/QUOTE] I will not make a teeth joke about you being from England. I will not make a teeth joke about you being from England… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-teeth-in-an-adult-be-regrown/414708/7 "2007-08-07T15:14:35Z")
Listen sonny, my teeth were damn fine until I got a sodding gum disease which meant I had to have all but 4 of my top gnashers yanked out by a fucking butcher of a dentist. My false teef are OK but it makes eating a crunchy loaf of bread or corn on the cob a bleeding ordeal. Bacon salt is OK, or would be if I had some