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'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

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Re: 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

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Post by olivierlacan »

credit_guy wrote: post #166
talideon wrote: post #162

If there's one dental treatment I'd gladly pay for, it's enamel restoration to get rid of tooth sensitivity.

A few days ago I bought Sensodine with NovaMin. The NovaMin technology doesn't exactly restore the enamel, but does something similar. Here's how wikipedia describes it: "Bioactive glass: Newer Sensodyne products contain calcium sodium phosphosilicate (brand name NovaMin). NovaMin sticks to an exposed dentin surface and reacts with it to form a mineralized layer. The layer formed bonds with the tooth, and is therefor…

These look like a more reputable source regarding the NovaMin efficacy claims (linked from the Wikipedia article):

- http://www.dentistryiq.com/articles/2011/03/novamin-and-hype...

- http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0895937409335621

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Post by gm-conspiracy »

elros wrote: post #136
brandon272 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Dental implants are really cool, but they are also incredibly expensive.

Well in most civilized places, including where I live, ordinary people don't have to deal with dental costs on a one-off basis. You just pay your taxes (or the state pays them if you can't afford it) and you're provided with healthcare. Seems pretty reasonable if you ask me.

Anybody know why dental care in the US in not considered "healthcare", requiring a separate insurance policy?

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Post by bsenftner »

proaralyst wrote: post #168
bsenftner wrote: post #167

There is a medical device, designed and manufactured in California, that generates O3 in such a way that a single tooth can be isolated and bathed in O3. The result is bacteria death within any tooth crack or cavity. Following that the calcium in our saliva naturally fills in any bacteria free cracks and cavities. This functioning, successful medical device is a "hit" everywhere on earth except the United States beca…

Have you any references for those claims?

Searching this stuff is like I'm looking for aliens - lots and lots of fake/fraud sites....

I see variations of this on both real and fake sites: "...the existence of FDA's ban of ozone therapy in the USA since the 1940s even after 60 years of prior successful ozone therapy in America. The FDA also ignores the fact that ozone therapy is currently used safely, effectively, and openly in Germany, Russia, and Cuba. Evidently, America's Medical Mafia is not fond of ozone therapy's proven efficacy for a wide range of diseases..."

Don't know how real this site it, but it contains much of the basic information http://www.dentaleconomics.com/articles/print/volume-99/issu...

99% of my information is from my friend; we were in graduate school together, and he worked at this medical device company at the time as a managing engineer.

It looks like the dental profession has a very serious fake news problem.

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Post by akiselev »

proaralyst wrote: post #168
bsenftner wrote: post #167

There is a medical device, designed and manufactured in California, that generates O3 in such a way that a single tooth can be isolated and bathed in O3. The result is bacteria death within any tooth crack or cavity. Following that the calcium in our saliva naturally fills in any bacteria free cracks and cavities. This functioning, successful medical device is a "hit" everywhere on earth except the United States beca…

Have you any references for those claims?

Its nonsense. Ozone therapy is a form of alternative medicine quackery that uses ozone generators and the FDA has cracked down on it because there's no evidence it works and the O3 gas is toxic. It is not banned by the FDA but marketing it as a clinical treatment is. In this sense all molecules that aren't approved drugs are "banned" by the FDA.

If it worked, the FDA would approve it as a Class III (high risk) medical device so my guess is that the OP's friend's company either doesn't have a working product or they just don't want to put in the work to get it approved (Class III devices are the most expensive to get through the FDA).

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Post by Filligree »

timje1 wrote: post #131
RhodesianHunter wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that now, but when you step up to the machine with the knowledge that you are about to cease to exist, while somewhere else a perfect copy of you gets to go about living your life, I bet you change your mind.

It gets more fun when you start to think about it as different consciousness being created and destroyed, each with the same memories. At what point do we start being afraid to fall asleep?

When you go to sleep your brain doesn't stop working. Comas, now...

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Post by bsenftner »

akiselev wrote: post #174
proaralyst wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you any references for those claims?

Its nonsense. Ozone therapy is a form of alternative medicine quackery that uses ozone generators and the FDA has cracked down on it because there's no evidence it works and the O3 gas is toxic. It is not banned by the FDA but marketing it as a clinical treatment is. In this sense all molecules that aren't approved drugs are "banned" by the FDA. If it worked, the FDA would approve it as a Class III (high risk) medica…

My buddy said they are making too much money with the rest of the world to care about kissing the bureaucrat's ass making unreasonable requests.

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Post by raquo »

Cerium wrote: post #161
raquo wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, sleep and cruise ships don't destroy and copy your body. Teleportation would be equivalent to being killed the way I see it, until we get a better understanding of conscience at least.

How do I know? I don't know what happened while on was sleeping. I fell asleep, and perpetually a few minutes later woke up, but my clock told me it was 8 hours. What happened??

You know what happens when other people sleep. It's not an issue.

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Post by chiph »

ptaipale wrote: post #143
astrodust wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It takes a lot of time to turn a laboratory discovery into a reliably working prototype, then longer still for the industry to agree on standards and branding, and even longer to ramp up mass-manufacturing and get the distribution chain working. We could discover teleportation tomorrow morning and it would be twenty years before teleporters were common-place. Everything takes time to be fully realized. If you want to…

And when we're discussing medical care, the mandatory regulatory approvals are a significant cause of delay and cost. E.g. FDA approvals in the U.S. They are a barrier to entry, and they are a measure to ensure safety of new cures. It's a tough balance.

Based on the history of drugs like Thalidomide, I'll pick safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide#History

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Post by bigtunacan »

neverminder wrote: post #103
RhodesianHunter wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You say that now, but when you step up to the machine with the knowledge that you are about to cease to exist, while somewhere else a perfect copy of you gets to go about living your life, I bet you change your mind.

Exactly. What if there's a bug and when your "copy" is created at destination original is not destroyed? Would you agree to be killed, should your copy agree instead? Even worse, what if there's an anomaly in transporting data, original is destroyed and copy emerges disfigured, dead or something in between? Teleportation scares the shit out of me.

Did you by chance read the short story "Think Like a Dinosaur" or see the episode of The Outer Limits based off it?

It presents this exact same dilemma. Up until that point I never really considered the potential ethical ramifications of teleportation.

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