{"id":34397,"date":"2017-02-10T23:43:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T07:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/stem-cell-fillings-allow-teeth-to-heal-themselves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:40:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:40:41","slug":"stem-cell-fillings-allow-teeth-to-heal-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/stem-cell-fillings-allow-teeth-to-heal-themselves","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cell Fillings Allow Teeth to Heal Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stem-cell-fillings-allow-teeth-to-heal-themselves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief:<\/p>\n<p>Regenerative dental fillings that allow teeth to heal themselves have been developed by researchers, potentially eliminating the need for root canals. The treatment earned a prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry after judges described it as a \u201cnew paradigm for dental treatments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one in their right mind would ever look forward to a filling at the dentist. Why can\u2019t our teeth fix themselves? Maybe they can. At long last, scientists from the University of Nottingham and Harvard University may have revolutionized the way we look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/dental-fillings-heal-teeth-stem-cells-harvard-cavities-477415\" target=\"_blank\">treating dental issues<\/a>. Their regenerative dental fillings allow teeth to heal themselves\u2014potentially eliminating the need for the high-pitched drilling inherent in root canals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/stem-cell-fillings-allow-teeth-to-heal-themselves\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/stem-cell-fillings-allow-teeth-to-heal-themselves\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief: Regenerative dental fillings that allow teeth to heal themselves have been developed by researchers, potentially eliminating the need for root canals. The treatment earned a prize from the Royal Society of Chemistry after judges described it as a \u201cnew paradigm for dental treatments.\u201d No one in their right mind would ever look forward [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397","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=34397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58771,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34397\/revisions\/58771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}