{"id":127493,"date":"2021-09-10T07:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/researchers-developing-smart-dental-implants-that-resist-bacterial-growth-generate-their-own-electricity"},"modified":"2021-09-10T07:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T14:22:37","slug":"researchers-developing-smart-dental-implants-that-resist-bacterial-growth-generate-their-own-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/researchers-developing-smart-dental-implants-that-resist-bacterial-growth-generate-their-own-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Researchers developing smart dental implants that resist bacterial growth, generate their own electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-developing-smart-dental-implants-that-resist-bacterial-growth-generate-their-own-electricity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hwang and colleagues lay out their platform, which could one day be integrated not only into dental implants but other technologies, such as joint replacements, as well.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>More than 3 million people in America have dental implants, used to replace a tooth lost to decay, gum disease, or injury. Implants represent a leap of progress over dentures or bridges, fitting much more securely and designed to last 20 years or more.<\/p>\n<p>But often implants fall short of that expectation, instead needing replacement in five to 10 years due to local inflammation or gum disease, necessitating a repeat of a costly and invasive procedure for patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to address this issue, and so we came up with an innovative new <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/implant\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">implant<\/a>,\u201d says Geelsu Hwang, an assistant professor in the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, who has a background in engineering that he brings to his research on oral health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hwang and colleagues lay out their platform, which could one day be integrated not only into dental implants but other technologies, such as joint replacements, as well. More than 3 million people in America have dental implants, used to replace a tooth lost to decay, gum disease, or injury. Implants represent a leap of progress [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127493","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}