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Thursday, June 29, 2006
10:29:00 AM EDT
Hearing Regret -- New Order
This is just about the most interesting thing I've read in a while: Canadian scientists are regrowing teeth:
The researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton filed patents earlier this month in the United States for the tool based on low-intensity pulsed ultrasound technology after testing it on a dozen dental patients in Canada.
"Right now, we plan to use it to fix fractured or diseased teeth, as well as asymmetric jawbones, but it may also help hockey players or children who had their tooth knocked out," Jie Chen, an engineering professor and nano-circuit design expert, told AFP.
Chen helped create the tiny ultrasound machine that gently massages gums and stimulates tooth growth from the root once inserted into a person's mouth, mounted on braces or a removable plastic crown. The wireless device, smaller than a pea, must be activated for 20 minutes each day for four months to stimulate growth, he said.
Yay! No more flossing! Well, okay, maybe not. But still, this is very excellent if it becomes a standard thing. I have a cap on one of my teeth, for example (a matter of me walking into a door in college, d'oh), and I'm fine with that, but if I ever had a tooth genuinely knocked right out, I would prefer to get a real one back rather than to have bridgework for the rest of my life.
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10:29:00 AM EDT
Hearing Regret -- New Order
A Fix for Gap-Toothed Smiles?
This is just about the most interesting thing I've read in a while: Canadian scientists are regrowing teeth:
The researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton filed patents earlier this month in the United States for the tool based on low-intensity pulsed ultrasound technology after testing it on a dozen dental patients in Canada.
"Right now, we plan to use it to fix fractured or diseased teeth, as well as asymmetric jawbones, but it may also help hockey players or children who had their tooth knocked out," Jie Chen, an engineering professor and nano-circuit design expert, told AFP.
Chen helped create the tiny ultrasound machine that gently massages gums and stimulates tooth growth from the root once inserted into a person's mouth, mounted on braces or a removable plastic crown. The wireless device, smaller than a pea, must be activated for 20 minutes each day for four months to stimulate growth, he said.
Yay! No more flossing! Well, okay, maybe not. But still, this is very excellent if it becomes a standard thing. I have a cap on one of my teeth, for example (a matter of me walking into a door in college, d'oh), and I'm fine with that, but if I ever had a tooth genuinely knocked right out, I would prefer to get a real one back rather than to have bridgework for the rest of my life.
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I was a little misled by your headline. So, no help for Madonna or David Letterman, then? Oh well, leave it Canadians to develop something that will be primarily of use to hockey players.
-Paul
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This is good news to a many toothless people! (I mean toothless people of the future perhaps...) I have a venere on my front tooth. It was chipped when I was 8 when someone (who shall remain nameless) hit me in the mouth with a sprinkler head! John you aren't alone--I hear that Nicole Smith's entire front teeth are capped. Julie :)
6/29/06 11:10 PM
natalie