If you've always thought re-growing teeth was impossible, then you should realize that you simply believed what other people told you. Not only can you actually regrow teeth but you can even use your tooth root to repair chipped teeth, and even holes. No fillings needed.

I stumbled upon some fascinating information and technologies when I asked Google the question- "Why can't human beings regrow teeth" as I refused to believe we can't (because I did once and now know how, more on that below).

At the end of this article I will put the links directly to the pages I researched so you can read for your self right out of the horse's mouth.

In this article I will first give you some fascinating background into an experience I had that showed me that re-growing teeth even the third set (after the baby tooth, the adult tooth grows in and comes out you can actually grow another tooth and for that matter as many as you need..

The body is truly self sufficient although sometimes much like muscle growth, it needs some help stimulating its functions (i.e. exercise causes the muscles to grow if we don't do a job that physically demands the use of those muscles we just have to use weights!).

Dinosaurs, animals, sharks all can/could regrow their teeth because they actively used them almost continuously.. stimulating the gums and more, although their is more to it than just using the teeth. (We'll get into this later in this article) this provided some clues to scientists much like birds showed us how to make a plane work.

I personally had a third tooth grow in but until my research here which stimulated this article (I wanted to know and wrote this hub as a way to consolidate my research) gave me new information I didn't know how it happened. I was told by dentists that it was a miracle, a freak happenstance.. To me if it happened, it can happen again- bottom line.

It will blow your mind why we couldn't before.. Actually we could we just didn't understand how. A hint though is part of the problem was our genes, genetics.

I was sitting on my sofa talking to my roommate about scientific things as I watched a History channel special on Dinosaurs. In this episode they mentioned that many dinosaurs had several rows of teeth and they would constantly grow back!

When a tooth would go dull it would fall out and the back row would move forward like a conveyor belt. I got to thinking why can't WE regrow teeth after two sets? If the second set "grows" in it has to come from somewhere right?

I personally have a missing/chipped tooth and have a yearning to get a new tooth, not an "implant" so I got curious. The other thing about me is I truly believe nothing is impossible just not figured out.

I don't believe anything, not even the legend that teeth cannot grow back; I don't care how many people believe this is "impossible" including most dentists and doctors.

What truly stimulated my research here was also that I personally have experienced the "Impossible" third set of teeth phenomenon when I was a kid.

I had a tooth split in half on me after eating something that had a tiny bone or calcium deposit (not sure) in it and the excruciating searing pain of this warranted an immediate dentist visit.

The tooth was pulled out as a result and this was my second set aka adult tooth. I had a space there where the tooth was taken out. It was lodged between two other teeth.

I was also one of the very rare people whom will never have wisdom teeth so this problem that plagues most people at some point in their life (that you cannot ignore) was a non issue for me. Miracle or evolution? I tend to believe anything is possible and always have. I'm a rational person and I'm by no means gullible but belief is a strong force..

For 10 years I had no tooth there in that spot, I knew it rather was convinced sort of, that it wouldn't grow back but I refused to fully believe it wasn't possible..

Every day I would think about it and got into the habit of playing with my gums there with my tongue, You could say I was always "massaging the gums" there, It felt kind of neat actually what can I say..

One day 10 years later (apx) I felt something there, I thought a peanut from my lunch (PB&J) got lodged in the hole (again) but this was no peanut, it was an enamel Island coming in. It was just the tip of the tooth and was hard to figure out if it was a tooth or bone or something.. I didn't truly know till about 6 months later.

I was excited and went to the mirror and I'll be dammed a tooth was there growing in! It took a while but it actually grew into a full tooth! No more hole (I kind of missed that hole as strange as it sounds but having a tooth there was totally exciting and made me a true believer in the impossible..

For years I thought about this and thought maybe it was my believing that one day (I'd always tell people it will come back someday, the tooth often joking).. And it did, I shite you not.

I didn't much think about this for the next ten years although for a while I told the story of the tooth that grew back after the adult one was pulled (the kid one fell out early in my childhood), most people told me I was full of crap but I wasn't and I got tired of hearing people's negative comments so I dropped the story from my "cool things that happened to me" speeches.

This is a true story, and this happening to me really mystified me as to how it was possible, and made me wonder why doctors are so negative about teeth, regardless of what the past has taught them I just knew (now from experience) that it was possible.

The way I saw it was if the body could grow it once it had to be capable of growing it again. Even if whatever was responsible for growing the tooth in the first place went dormant, or missing, the body is capable of much more than many realize...

If you've ever heard of stem cell research but have no idea how this works, I'm going to give you a crash course cliff notes couple paragraph synopsis of this so you can understand where my logic comes from.

After this I will get into the actual technology that has made doctors change their opinions on teeth re-growing because someone actually did it, many actually. The technology is in its infancy and is said to be available in as little as two years.

Disclaimer: I am no doctor and I do not claim to be the expert on this topic, I am basing what I will be stating here on stem cells based on my research and how my brilliant friend Shaun explained it to me..

This is simply how I understand it and I'll use the same metaphors he did, weather or not I'm accurate makes no difference but how it works logically is what I'm trying to point out for later in this hub you'll understand why.

On that note stem cells are fascinating and regardless of the negative press and propaganda about them they are basically the source code of life and the raw materials that make up everything in your body.

O.k. Stem cells are essentially the building blocks of all things in our body. The stem cell is at birth (of the stem cell not the person) much like programming code is before it becomes a program complete potential without form so to speak.

It is capable of becoming a leg, the heart, a sweat gland, hair, and genitals, anything your body has started as a stem cell.

Realize also that although a stem cell can become a heart for example, the heart is made up of a complex matrix of different parts hence several stem cells may be responsible for its creation (I assume).

The "code" for the stem cells "blueprint" (what it's destined to become, i.e. the lung, liver, eyeball etc..) is in the persons DNA.

A stem cell is likened to a blank Hub Page and the capsules you add to it would be likened to "switches" . Some parts of the DNA are turned on others are off (I'm oversimplifying it as not to lose you in the technical details) think of a hub page that has some capsules added and others are not in it.

Each capsule, text, picture, video, rss feed, comments etc.. Has its own potential function and yet it has its place in the matrix of other capsules networked to make a "Hub" article.

Let's forget for a moment that these things will be populated with content and keep it simple to show how the "body" of the hub would be like your body (an incredibly simplistic metaphor for the basic idea of how a stem cell builds.. )

All those capsules were once just potential code, and the programmer made them a text capsule, a picture capsule etc..

The stem cell would be a physical manifestation of the potential code, by ordering it and removing the non essential code you are left with the capsule. Each capsule would function like a body part, the text would be like a lung and allows you to breath the point is it is a part then a function next.

Think of it like those switches in your ceiling fan remote, there are 5 switches and if they are set to the pattern in the ceiling fan in your room then it controls that fan. If the pattern is changed to the one in another room then it would control that one.

This makes the remote programmable to any fan.. Well the stem cell is programmable to any biological part, cell structure, and so on. The difference here is the remote can be changed in what frequency it puts out.

The stem cell in the body is changed with DNA switches turned on or off, it can become anything in your body and to make it become a toe nail, a leg, an arm, a finger, joint, or whatever, the DNA flips the switches to program it to grow into that part.

When your lung is created in your mothers tummy for example the DNA essentially holds the entire blue print for your body's make up which is billions and billions of stem cells which determine how you look, function, everything.

When they clone someone from stem cells they can program the DNA code for each cell and can control everything this way, blue eyes, green etc.. It's all about the genome.

To make a lung from a stem cell they just use one cell and change the DNA to reflect the "Lung" code (I have no idea how they do this but with computers amazing things are possible, they've even mapped out the human genome, the blueprint of the entire body's DNA code structure.

This is required to be able to "program" for want of a better term, each cell to their will! The Genome is the blueprint of the body's "source code" for want of a better term)

Once it's grown into that part it cannot be reprogrammed, but as a stem cell it can become anything. For a better scientific explanation on this check out this page.

This is how cloning organs or a while human being, a dog, sheep, pig or goat works. The stem cell can be grown into a lung for example by messing with the DNA in the cell.

Essentially they either remove parts, make them dormant, or activate others.. Honestly I don't know but I know that they mess with the DNA thus causing the stem cell to grow into any part they want.

It seems impossible to be able to do that but scientists have figured out how. One stem cell can produce more stem cells and can become an entire bio-matrix (the body for example).

So knowing this (later in life) reinforced that the body can reproduce anything missing, even arms and legs, toes, etc.. Since stem cells are all over your body I don't see why some neighboring organ i.e. gums near teeth, can't produce and program a "tooth" to "grow" again.

The technology they have developed that can regrow teeth has also been tested to regrow bones.. Which would make re-growing a lost limb possible, in conjunction with stem cell stimulation I'm sure..

But that is another hub.

I bet in the future they will find ways to stimulate stem cells in the body, near the amputated arm for instance to regrow any part... Stem cells are ALL OVER your body, and since a stem cell is a blank disk so to speak that can become anything, then a stem cell found in the gums has the potential to become a tooth root, or anything else.

This is not so far fetched anymore, not at all.. I think scientists have found all of this stuff out years ago but its been hidden from the general public... But thanks to the internet they can't keep a lid on the independent researchers who choose to broadcast their findings usually in an effort to find a market to become rich on their invention.

I don't have a problem with bald spots or receding hairlines (do I? lol) but I worry that some day I will. I was watching a hair club commercial and decided to do some research on how this whole thing worked. Its relevance here is awareness of things once thought impossible such as growing hair naturally, not with "implants" or "wigs"...

Expecting to read about hair plugs or something I was shocked to find out that they don't do surgery, they simply inhibit DHT, an enzyme/chemical in the body that chokes the hair follicle. Just like teeth the materials are still there they just don't produce anything because their dormant, clinically "dead" but can be revived with stimulation, although with hair it's more about blocking DHT than stimulation.

In genetic balding and even in non genetic balding a pattern of DHT flows to the hair follicle in certain places (hence "pattern baldness" and "receding hairline", and this enzyme inhibits growth of hair by chocking essentially the follicle (gets that sucker in a chemical headlock lol). The follicle is still there it's beneath the skin so you don't see it but it's there trust me.

Rogaine and other such products use Minoxidil, and other things to inhibit the DHT from reaching the hair follicle. Some like the kind you put on your follicles directly (creams) do this directly at the follicle level, others like the pills you take, inhibit DHT blocking it at the pass from choking the follicle and thus the follicle starts working again and hair grows again, in all areas.

Their is no excuse for baldness now! George Castanza eat your heart out! (Seinfeld).

The Urban Legend/joke of getting it on your hands or face and hair growing as if the cream was a hair pill is not true. It doesn't cause any direct growth, it just restores the natural function of the follicle (not directly but by stopping the DHT from choking it), and they put other things in it to give it nutrition so it nurses back to health faster (that part is directly nurturing the follicle).

So now you know... It seems that all things that used to be impossible are no longer so... (in my mind they never were.. it was more an out of sight out of mind, believe the bs the media feeds you). When you see your missing teeth grow back your going to flip out! Let's get to that now..

This article has proven pretty educational I think.. Sort of a scientific conglomeration.. *Smiles* But on to our show- Growing teeth.. What a great thing! I wanted to put these other things in here to both give you some interesting information and to show that everything is possible even if for over a hundred years people thought it wasn't...

All these years they've been telling us that teeth simply won't grow back after your adult set. What they failed to mention was that 1 in 500,000 people have done it NATURALLY due to a specific gene that allows them to.

Doctors have been studying how to make teeth grow back for over a decade now and the research began with rats and rabbits, and then they moved over to human teeth.

What is shocking is how simple it is, and how this technology has actually worked on ALL test subjects!

It works by massaging the root (so I assume if you've had the whole tooth extracted then it won't work for you, but don't quote me on that) Apparently they discovered that massaging the root would work to re-stimulate the dental material inside the tooth that allows everything to happen from the enamel growth/repair to the reformation of the tooth.

The problem however is nobody can massage it where one would need to for this to work. The solution was to send low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) directly to the root to massage it. Since ultrasound penetrates all the way to the root of the tooth's center it can do the trick!

It's that simple. The first devices they made were pretty big and cumbersome and the test subjects had to hold it over their mouth for 20 minutes a day for a year. They have since miniaturized the unit so it fits in the mouth targeting the exact tooth and root with sonic surgical precision. The device is a wireless unit smaller than a pea.

Quote:

"The wireless design of the ultrasound transducer means the miniscule device will be able to fit comfortably inside a patient's mouth while packed in biocompatible materials. The unit will be easily mounted on an orthodontic or "braces" bracket or even a plastic removable crown. The team also designed an energy sensor that will ensure the LIPUS power is reaching the target area of the teeth roots within the bone."

Source

This means that according to most sources I've found in a Google search on this subject (whom all seem to be duplicating the content from each others page so its hard to figure out who the original author is) say that this technology works and is proven with proof you can actually touch (tangible results and duplicated successful and tractable/predictable results), but the teams are working on "tuning" the technology up before releasing it to the general public.

This technology was invented in Canada and will soon be available world wide. It is a very inexpensive device to manufacture although I'm sure it will piss off many dentists and orthodontics as it will make fillings, and prosthetic teeth a thing of the past.

Healing time does take some time, apparently for a tooth to fully grow it takes a year at 20 minutes a day. Since the device can go in like braces or a removable crown (temporary), it can be put in most likely just before you go to bed and taken out 20 minutes later.

This technology is said to also repair chipped teeth (re-growing the missing chunk area and even replacing the enamel) and can like getting a hole poked in your arm; repair itself where one would normally require a filling.

The unit will run on a microchip that will actually use artificial intelligence circuitry to make sure the right root areas are being stimulated. It will not be left to chance, the hand held unit will receive a transmission from the ultrasonic device in your mouth and can constantly fix, update, and refocus the "beam" for want of a better descriptive term.

I don't want to regurgitate all the same data everyone else is so I'll leave it at that and give you the links to the best research I've found on this topic below so you can read it directly from them. It's all fascinating. If anyone finds a link to different information please leave the link URL in the comments box below.

One final note, they are also using this technology to regrow bone. Can you imagine re-growing a finger that was chopped off? Repairing bone density and regrowing limbs.. These are some things diabetic patients are getting excited about!

Many don't realize that our blood is actually grown by the bones. Bone marrow is what gives life to blood cells and healthy blood cells bring a lot of things like white T cells and so forth. These things are getting so exciting that all those wonderful devices you see on star trek are really starting to make sense.. in fact most of the stuff you see there are real patented concepts that were never made (yet)..

Below are some fascinating research links on all of this. If you are a hub page author, join my fan club to keep up to date on my latest research. I write hubs all the time on this kind of fascinating finds.. I am a blogger for a living so I'm always stimulated to research!

Thank you for reading my hub. If you found it interesting or useful please leave a comment below.

I spent hours looking through sites to find the best ones. Alot of these repeat information but they each have something the others don't so I thought you'd want to see them.

low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) information

• Tooth ReGrowing (more illistrations in explanation)
• Become shark-Like; Regrow your teeth!
• How to repair or regrow bad teeth naturally
• Gizmos: Regrow teeth/bones
• Is it possible to regrow teeth (pretty good info)
• Engadget (this site acts kinda funny but great info)
• Broke a tooth? Grow it back!
• Toothsome research may hold key to repairing dental disasters
• Ultrasound 'scalpels' offer incision-free surgery
• Tooth Growing Technology
• Ultrasound based unit to regrow teeth
• Dentistry today: Regrow your own teeth (forum post)

"If the root is broken, it can now be fixed," said Dr. Tarak

El-Bialy of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry. "And because we

can regrow the teeth root, a patient could have his own tooth rather

than foreign objects in his mouth." Source (one of those pages linked above)

Other ways dentists are regrowing teeth NOW:

• Tooth Regeneration
• Regrow teeth and ROOTS (so your not out if your whole tooth was pulled)
• Crystals regrow teeth!
• Bioengeneered teeth from dental stem cells
• Toothpaste reformulation