{"id":33316,"date":"2017-01-09T20:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T04:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-have-found-a-drug-that-regenerates-teeth-and-it-could-reduce-the-need-for-fillings"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:53:20","slug":"scientists-have-found-a-drug-that-regenerates-teeth-and-it-could-reduce-the-need-for-fillings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/scientists-have-found-a-drug-that-regenerates-teeth-and-it-could-reduce-the-need-for-fillings","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Found a Drug That Regenerates Teeth, and It Could Reduce the Need for Fillings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-a-drug-that-regenerates-teeth-and-it-could-reduce-the-need-for-fillings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have identified a drug that can regenerate teeth from the inside out, possibly reducing the need for artificial fillings.<\/p>\n<p>The drug was previously used in Alzheimer\u2019s clinical trials, and it now appears to improve the tooth\u2019s natural ability to heal itself. It works by activating stem cells inside the tooth\u2019s pulp centre, prompting the damaged area to regenerate the hard <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dentin\">dentin<\/a> material that makes up the majority of a tooth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simplicity of our approach makes it ideal as a clinical dental product for the natural treatment of large cavities, by providing both pulp protection and restoring dentine,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/newsevents\/news\/newsrecords\/2017\/01-January\/Natural-tooth-repair-method-using-Alzheimer%27s-drug-could-revolutionise-dental-treatments.aspx\">said lead author Paul Sharpe<\/a> from King\u2019s College London.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-drug-can-regenerate-teeth-possibly-reducing-the-need-for-man-made-fillings\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-new-drug-can-regenerate-tee...e-fillings<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have identified a drug that can regenerate teeth from the inside out, possibly reducing the need for artificial fillings. The drug was previously used in Alzheimer\u2019s clinical trials, and it now appears to improve the tooth\u2019s natural ability to heal itself. It works by activating stem cells inside the tooth\u2019s pulp centre, prompting the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33316","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33316"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65405,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33316\/revisions\/65405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}