For the past two decades, scientists have been manipulating genes to grow human cells where you wouldn’t quite expect them.

“We could, perhaps, use the stem cells that exist inside the tooth to regrow the living part of the tooth and then make a crown—just like we do now for a root canal—to bioengineer a new tooth.

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

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