{"id":87689,"date":"2019-02-12T23:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-have-discovered-a-drug-that-fixes-cavities-and-regrows-teeth"},"modified":"2019-02-12T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T07:22:37","slug":"scientists-have-discovered-a-drug-that-fixes-cavities-and-regrows-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/scientists-have-discovered-a-drug-that-fixes-cavities-and-regrows-teeth","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Discovered a Drug That Fixes Cavities and Regrows Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-discovered-a-drug-that-fixes-cavities-and-regrows-teeth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>GOODBYE, FILLINGS<\/strong> 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, the drug also happens to promote the natural tooth regrowth mechanism, allowing the tooth to repair cavities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencevibe.com\/2018\/03\/01\/scientists-have-discovered-a-drug-that-fixes-cavities-and-regrows-teeth\/\">http:\/\/sciencevibe.com\/2018\/03\/01\/scientists-have-discovered...ows-teeth\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOODBYE, FILLINGS 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, the drug also happens to promote the natural tooth regrowth mechanism, allowing the tooth to repair cavities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87689","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\/87689","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}