{"id":112838,"date":"2020-09-10T12:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/an-alzheimers-drug-has-been-shown-to-help-teeth-repair-cavities-naturally"},"modified":"2020-09-10T12:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:22:57","slug":"an-alzheimers-drug-has-been-shown-to-help-teeth-repair-cavities-naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/an-alzheimers-drug-has-been-shown-to-help-teeth-repair-cavities-naturally","title":{"rendered":"An Alzheimer\u2019s Drug Has Been Shown to Help Teeth Repair Cavities Naturally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-alzheimers-drug-has-been-shown-to-help-teeth-repair-cavities-naturally2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018 o,.o!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dental fillings may soon be left in the ash heap of history, thanks to a recent discovery about a drug called Tideglusib.<\/p>\n<p>Developed for and trialled to treat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alzheimer's\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease, last year scientists found the drug also happens to promote the natural tooth regrowth mechanism in mice, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/videos\/scientists-discover-a-drug-that-could-help-regrow-your-teeth\/\">allowing the tooth to repair cavities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tideglusib works by stimulating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"stem cells\">stem cells<\/a> in the pulp of teeth, the source of new dentine. Dentine is the mineralised substance beneath tooth enamel that gets eaten away by tooth decay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 o,.o! Dental fillings may soon be left in the ash heap of history, thanks to a recent discovery about a drug called Tideglusib. Developed for and trialled to treat Alzheimer\u2019s disease, last year scientists found the drug also happens to promote the natural tooth regrowth mechanism in mice, allowing the tooth to repair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}