{"id":24658,"date":"2016-04-13T22:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T05:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/team-uses-3d-tissue-engineering-to-revolutionize-dental-disease"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:17:55","slug":"team-uses-3d-tissue-engineering-to-revolutionize-dental-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/team-uses-3d-tissue-engineering-to-revolutionize-dental-disease","title":{"rendered":"Team uses 3D tissue engineering to revolutionize dental disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-uses-3d-tissue-engineering-to-revolutionize-dental-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discomfort and stigma of loose or missing teeth could be a thing of the past as Griffith University researchers pioneer the use of 3D bioprinting to replace missing teeth and bone.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year study, which has been granted a National Health and Medical Research Council Grant of $650,000, is being undertaken by periodontist Professor Saso Ivanovski from Griffith\u2019s Menzies Health Institute Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>As part of an Australian first, Professor Ivanovski and his team are using the latest 3D bioprinting to produce new, totally \u2018bespoke,\u2019 tissue engineered <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bone\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone<\/a> and gum that can be implanted into a patient\u2019s jawbone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-03-team-d-tissue-revolutionize-dental.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;03-team-d-tissue-revo...ental.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discomfort and stigma of loose or missing teeth could be a thing of the past as Griffith University researchers pioneer the use of 3D bioprinting to replace missing teeth and bone. The three-year study, which has been granted a National Health and Medical Research Council Grant of $650,000, is being undertaken by periodontist Professor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,38,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50824,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24658\/revisions\/50824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}