dentistry
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Details Of Earliest Human Dentistry Make Me Want To Cry
Dentists are scary. Even in the most modern medical scenario, it is undeniably horrifying for someone to stick sharp objects in your mouth. Imagine what it was like 14,000 years ago. Actually, you don’t have to because a team of scientists just found the earliest example of dentistry, and it’s horrifying.
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Dentists May Start Covering Teeth In Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust
Looks like there’s a new candidate for most awesome supermaterial in town. Dentists may soon start fighting bone loss by covering our teeth in itty bitty nanodiamonds, making repairing teeth quicker, cheaper and much less painful.
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Your Spit Might Tell Dentists If You Have Cancer
Dentists (a.k.a. we’re real doctors, I promise!) might soon be your first line of defence against cancer through something called salivanomics — meaning analysing your spit to see if you have diseases.
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New Mouthwash Could Eliminate Tooth Decay ‘Within Our Lifetimes’
A single species of bacteria is responsible for tooth decay. But until now, mouthwash has worked by sterilising your maw wholesale. But why go Death Star v. Alderaanon it when you could just kill off that one bad species? This is exactly what Colgate has done and the result could mean an end to cavities…