No more fillings? Gel regenerates teeth

:thumbsup: Treating cavities without a drill? This will be great news if it pans out.


"Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth to regenerate in about a month, according to a new study in the journal ACS Nano. This technology is the first of its kind.

The new gel or thin film could eliminate the need to fill painful cavities or drill deep into the root canal of an infected tooth.

"It's not like toothpaste," which prevent cavities, said Nadia Benkirane-Jessel, a scientist at the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale and a co-author of a recent paper. "Here we are really trying to control cavities (after they develop)."

Drilling teeth and filling them is safe and effective. Dentists fill millions of cavities each year across the United States. However, though dentists numb the tooth, many patients still rue the sound of that drill..."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37978810/ns/health-oral_health/

I found this comment by someone posting on the article --

We will never see this technology used. It would put the dental profession out of business, so it will be bought up and buried. Health treatments in the 21st century are not about what is bet for the patient, they are about how much profit is available for the medical profession.

There is all sorts of wonderful discoveries going on, but since you seem to think that if YOU never heard of it, it doesn't exist I would like you to back up your bs claim. I think you need to research cancer vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, stem cells etc etc. But what do I know, I'm just a biologist! SICK SICK SICK of people who don't know or understand science making bullshit statements

1: Research team finds that something slows the division of cancer cells. (As an example)
2: They tell the people above them in the ladder to secure funding for their work.
3: The people above them issue a press release for publicity.
4: The media runs a headline that reads like an overexcited fifth grader. "OMFG NeW CanCer CUrE!!!!!!11111<3"
5: It turns out the stuff is too toxic to use, or just doesn't work.
6: The people with MBAs that sent out the initial press release don't issue a new one explaining anything.
7: Everyone thinks a cure for cancer was suppressed.

First, if you're disposed to the assumption that scientists are somehow "super" people who are immune to bribes, kickbacks and other incentives that affect their findings, you're willfully ignorant or naive.

"Researchers" have been paid to produce results favorable to industry through "studies" for at least a century.

Lying with science is no different that lying with statistics. It can be done and it is done. Skepticism and analysis of the parties involved is always healthy. In the absence of skepticism and critical analysis, science smells an awful lot like faith.

Second, scientists are humans who make honest mistakes. Tissue samples can get contaminated even in the best run labs.

Finally, "all sorts of wonderful discoveries" require investors and capital to bring a product to market. This has nothing to do with the science, but with industry, politics, and culture.

Many products that would better our lives don't make it to the marketplace because they are deemed unprofitable.

The cream does not always rise to the top because it is suppressed either by lack of funding or funding competing (more profitable) technology.

as anti-cancer vaccines that destroy tumors and eliminate the need for chemotherapy. Oh and why we have such things as monoclonal antibodies as well that will eliminate both chemo and radiation for other cancers. Lets not even get started on treatments that will eliminate the need for daily pills for Lupus patients and replace it with once every 3-6 month treatment. Which is actually probably about 2 years away. But hey, what does someone who is a scientist by profession know. Obviously a random idiot on the internet is soooo much more knowledgeable than people with degrees.
You really are ignorant of science.

Warburg hypothesis and the revisions since 1999 in its uses for curing cancer.

And, I agree with the previous poster to a certain extent. When a Big Pharma company - much like a Big Oil company - finds a "cure" or "alternative method" that would put their money-making standard out of existence, they buy it up, shelf it and offer public "conclusions" that such methods won't work or can't work or aren't sustainable or are too expensive or won't appeal to people... blah, blah, blah.

Of course, in today's world of fast information, it's becoming more and more difficult for the multi-nationals to hide such information (in this case, the product was discovered by foreign researchers under a publicly-funded health system, so privately-owned big pharma will have trouble keeping the word hushed.)

Why do you think there's even a discussion regarding Net Neutrality?

:hi:

I really don't like your flippant remark. Democrats have dental issues too you know.

:applause:

(I made that up.)

so floss and brush.Rinse with water after dinner if you are out on the town,use breath mints to combact B.B.

They need something to regenerate the gums and have them adhere to the teeth without deep pockets (other than the deep pockets that pay for care).

... all of our tinfoil precautions! They'll be monitoring everything we say, hear, do, or chew!! Seig Heil, Herr Dentischt!! Don't be fooled!!!! This is the just the beginning!!!!! First they came for the cavities, but I didn't have any cavities so I said nothing!!!!!!!!!! Exclamations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn't resist.

Dustin and Lawrence, dentistry was never the same after you guys.

if they ever have to remove them. The mercury damages your immune system.

The amount of mercury in a filling isn't large enough to "damage" your immune system. Signed AN IMMUNOLOGIST.

This sounds great.

it's my understanding though that cavities are also sometimes more like

veins of decay ... marbelizing the tooth with decay -- so they are often taking

out a whole lot of TOOTH with the decay. Another reason why this would be wonderful if

it works and is available soon!

gene therapy to make me immortal I'll be able to have whatever cavities I have at that point fixed.

What ever happened to the vaccine to prevent cavities?

You know,put the gel in, then the teeth keep growing.