New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
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New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
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Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#2Not to be dismissive, but there are a lot of claims in this article that are difficult to assess.
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#3This makes me very skeptical:
> The root canal is restored to health by gradual build up of tissue by stem cells over a period, extending from a few weeks to some months.
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#4Not to be dismissive, but there are a lot of claims in this article that are difficult to assess.
That's because it's a news article, not a research paper.
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#5Looks like it is not very new, there are other articles on it:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech...
Here is the medical paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112478
Here is the patent http://www.google.com/patents/US20120231422
And this is the picture worth a thousand words http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US20120231422A1/U...
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#6I love that 'painless' is in quotes.
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#7> repair teeth
This is not reparing. Repairing would assume that afterwards you've got the same features as before, but replacing nerves and blood vessels with plastic (or in this case, regular tissue) doesn't really provide the same features as before.
I'd like to see much more the possibility to replace teeth with ones you've generated from your own stem cells.
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#8> repair teeth This is not reparing. Repairing would assume that afterwards you've got the same features as before, but replacing nerves and blood vessels with plastic (or in this case, regular tissue) doesn't really provide the same features as before. I'd like to see much more the possibility to replace teeth with ones you've generated from your own stem cells.
That research is progressing rapidly:
https://singularityhub.com/2013/08/26/scientists-grow-teeth-...
I have a high risk of cavities due to my genetics, am 31, and my teeth are falling apart even with a high level of care (brushing 2-3 times/day, flossing, baking soda rinse after meals to return mouth ph to baseline quickly). I'll be happy to pay for replacement teeth grown from my own cells when available.
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#9Having had root canal in the past, this doesn't seem particularly helpful.
The drilling and cleaning is the painful and time-consuming part.
The actual sealing it up at the end was relatively trivial in comparison (from my perspective).
Re: New 'painless' treatment to repair teeth
#10Not to be dismissive, but there are a lot of claims in this article that are difficult to assess.
That's because it's a news article, not a research paper.
Some news articles are kind enough to mention the journal results like those claimed here originally appeared in.
I see some helpful links in other comments now too though.