Tooth Regeneration may replace drill and fill

[Cymbidium]

Interesting. Anyone hear anything about this?

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2008/04/tooth_regeneration

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[aphistis]

Nice article. Still a long way from custom-order synthetically grown teeth, but it casts the profession in a pretty favorable light.

 

[ItsGavinC]

Good article. It don't see this replacing fillings, at least not for several decades, any more than implants have replaced bridges or dentures. It will have an impact though, that's for sure. Stuff like this excites me and I think we need more advancements in dentistry.

 

[GoGatorsDMD]

Interesting, but I think replacement therapy for S. mutans will be coming out before we replace tooth structure.

www.oragenics.com

 

[dheav005]

impressively coherent article. nice layman explanations of enamel and dentin. extremely questionable PPE.

 

[SuperC]

extremely questionable PPE.

 

[armorshell]

After reading the article, this seems to be a discussion of remineralization in layman's terms.

 

[1992Corolla]

can't you just use some prevident 5000? (I didnt read the article)

 

[dheav005]

even better is MI Paste from GC America.

 

[blankguy]

If this were to come reality, people would walk out of the dental office thinking dentists are magicians. I suspect that this might not apply in all cases.