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Re: OT for Some | How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> How to eliminate pain tied to tooth decay
>> http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-11-pain-tied-tooth.html
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>> 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.



-- 
Jim Pennino

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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

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