But will the drug approval agencies allow genetically engineered therapies for anything disruptive? For example, they've been blocking the caries vaccine for decades.
> blocking the caries vaccine for decades Please give more details.
Big dental isn’t blocking it we just don’t have a good enough model and yes there isn’t a sufficient financial incentive to develop it really either.
Caries isn’t a big problem these days, it’s not then major cause of tooth problems as people grow older, dental hygiene and more importantly fluoride in water pretty much solved it for those population that were affected.
There is no financial reason to block a caries vaccine as it’s not going to have any impact on the industry, cosmetic and corrective procedures would still be just as in demand and gum disease is by far a bigger factor for tooth loss in adult patients than caries.
Not to mention that quite a lot of the “vaccines” weren’t traditional vaccines but rather replacement therapies where lacto acid producing bacteria would be replaced with strains that cannot produce it but can outcompete the lactobacillus flora in your mouth, these treatments are let’s say problematic since we have had little to no experience in flora replacement therapies and can’t predict or model the outcomes well.