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  OT for Some | How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 08:45 -0600
    Re: OT for Some | How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-18 19:42 +0000
      Re: OT for Some | How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 14:57 -0500

#533928 — OT for Some | How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay

How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay
> http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-pain-tied-tooth.html



> Dual discoveries at USC propose a promising method to regrow
> nonliving hard tissue, lessening or even eliminating pain associated
> with tooth decay, which the National Institutes of Health calls the
> most prevalent chronic disease.
>
> Janet Moradian-Oldak, a professor at the Herman Ostrow School of
> Dentistry of USC, has investigated methods to regrow tooth enamel for
> the past two decades. The process is especially tricky because unlike
> bone, mature enamel cannot rejuvenate. Tooth enamel is a nonliving
> tissue.
>
> The a-ha moment came Oct. 22 when, in collaboration with lead author
> Sauma Prajapati of USC and other colleagues, she published a study in
> the Biomaterials journal saying matrix metalloproteinase-20, an
> enzyme found only in teeth, chops up amelogenin proteins, which
> facilitate organized enamel crystal formation. MMP-20 clears the way
> for hard material to usurp vacated space.
>
> Her team is the first to define the function of an enzyme for
> preventing protein occlusion inside a crystal, she said.




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#533979

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay
>> http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-pain-tied-tooth.html
> 
> 
> 
>> Dual discoveries at USC propose a promising method to regrow
>> nonliving hard tissue, lessening or even eliminating pain associated
>> with tooth decay, which the National Institutes of Health calls the
>> most prevalent chronic disease.
>>
>> Janet Moradian-Oldak, a professor at the Herman Ostrow School of
>> Dentistry of USC, has investigated methods to regrow tooth enamel for
>> the past two decades. The process is especially tricky because unlike
>> bone, mature enamel cannot rejuvenate. Tooth enamel is a nonliving
>> tissue.
>>
>> The a-ha moment came Oct. 22 when, in collaboration with lead author
>> Sauma Prajapati of USC and other colleagues, she published a study in
>> the Biomaterials journal saying matrix metalloproteinase-20, an
>> enzyme found only in teeth, chops up amelogenin proteins, which
>> facilitate organized enamel crystal formation. MMP-20 clears the way
>> for hard material to usurp vacated space.
>>
>> Her team is the first to define the function of an enzyme for
>> preventing protein occlusion inside a crystal, she said.

Brush your teeth twice a day and have a dentist clean your teeth regularly.



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Jim Pennino

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#533985

On 11/18/2015 02:42 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay
>>> http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-pain-tied-tooth.html
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dual discoveries at USC propose a promising method to regrow
>>> nonliving hard tissue, lessening or even eliminating pain associated
>>> with tooth decay, which the National Institutes of Health calls the
>>> most prevalent chronic disease.
>>>
>>> Janet Moradian-Oldak, a professor at the Herman Ostrow School of
>>> Dentistry of USC, has investigated methods to regrow tooth enamel for
>>> the past two decades. The process is especially tricky because unlike
>>> bone, mature enamel cannot rejuvenate. Tooth enamel is a nonliving
>>> tissue.
>>>
>>> The a-ha moment came Oct. 22 when, in collaboration with lead author
>>> Sauma Prajapati of USC and other colleagues, she published a study in
>>> the Biomaterials journal saying matrix metalloproteinase-20, an
>>> enzyme found only in teeth, chops up amelogenin proteins, which
>>> facilitate organized enamel crystal formation. MMP-20 clears the way
>>> for hard material to usurp vacated space.
>>>
>>> Her team is the first to define the function of an enzyme for
>>> preventing protein occlusion inside a crystal, she said.
>
> Brush your teeth twice a day and have a dentist clean your teeth regularly.

Herb, I worked on this problem many years ago with the guy who developed 
the root canal method. It's not such a simple thing to do.



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