Adhesives that Remineralize Teeth
August 25, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
When dentists drill out a tooth cavity, they fill it with a glass isomer cement, which plugs the hole, but doesn’t offer the tooth any other advantage. Researchers at CEU Cardinal Herrera University (Valencia, Spain), however, have discovered a phosphoprotein biomimetic material that, along with a bioreactive resin-based adhesive, can actually remineralize teeth. As this report says: “The biomimetic analogues used in this study permitted the remineralisation of collagen fibrils through precipitation of hydroxyapatite at intra-fibrillar level, so that the biomechanical properties of the demineralised dentine, such as the elastic modulus and hardness were completely recovered.” MORE
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