“…It has been well established that mineralized tissues, specifically both bone and dentine, contain a significant reservoir of sequestered bioactive factors 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. Here it is possible that when presented with a “damaged” dentin surface, these factors were at work in recruiting the injected cGFP‐DPPCs to the site of the “injury.” Osteopontin is expressed by cells in a variety of tissues, including bone, dentin and hypertrophic cartilage; it is a key early marker of mineralized tissue matrix repair and has been postulated to play a role in initially attaching migrated DPPCs to a repair site 35, 36.…”