US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education on April 29 for "Regeneration of vital tooth pulp" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,545, issued on April 29, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh).

"Regeneration of vital tooth pulp" was invented by Juan M. Taboas (Pittsburgh), Herbert L. Ray (Leechburg, Pa.), Jingming Chen (Pittsburgh), Patrick Eugene Donnelly (Pittsburgh) and Tyler Swenson (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of regenerating vital tooth tissue in situ after endodontic therapy include introducing a hydrogel scaffold into a root canal of a tooth in a patient after native pulp has been removed from the root canal. The hydrogel scaffold may comprise a sponge scaffold, and can ...