Molecular Factors Underlie Mouth’s Head Start on Healing | NIH Intramural Research Program

Molecular Factors Underlie Mouth’s Head Start on Healing | NIH Intramural Research Program

Molecular Factors Underlie Mouth’s Head Start on Healing

BY BRANDON LEVY

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

IRP researchers discovered the reason that skin tissue (pictured above) heals more slowly than tissue in the mouth.

As an impatient eater, I find myself burning or biting the inside of my mouth more often than I’d like.