14 DAY TRIAL // Usually, if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. In the case of the newly-created cavity solution that helps teeth regenerate themselves, it’s true: researchers at Leeds University have come up with a solution that will make visits to the dentist’s more pleasant.
As GizMag points out, sometimes, the pain associated with a visit to the dentist’s for a cavity is more than enough to keep many from going there – or, at the very least, to make them dread the moment.
With the new solution, which ensures the cavity is filled from within the tooth in the most un-painful method, this problem disappears altogether.
“The fluid developed by researchers in the University of Leeds’ School of Chemistry contains a peptide known as P 11-4 that will assemble into fibers under certain conditions,” the publication says.
Applied on the damaged tooth, the solution seeps into the “micro-pores” made by bacteria in plaque and “forms a gel that provides a ‘scaffold’ that attracts calcium and regenerates the tooth’s mineral from within to provide natural and pain-free repair of the damaged tooth,” it further notes.
In other words, the solution helps the tooth heal itself, thus making the dentist’s intervention with the drill and other tools and devices completely unnecessary.
Moreover, the new procedure is completely pain-free, Professor Jennifer Kirkham of the University of Leeds Dental Institute promises.
The new cavity solution has already been tested on a batch of patients showing the first signs of tooth decay, and results have been more than promising: it can reverse early damage.
“The results of our tests so far are extremely promising,” Professor Paul Brunton of the same Institute says.
“If these results can be repeated on a larger patient group, then I have no doubt whatsoever that in two to three years’ time this technique will be available for dentists to use in their daily practice,” Brunton adds.