{"id":1041853,"date":"2011-11-27T16:50:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T16:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/longevity-medicine\/the-end-of-tooth-decay-looms-large.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T20:52:11","slug":"the-end-of-tooth-decay-looms-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/the-end-of-tooth-decay-looms-large.php","title":{"rendered":"The End of Tooth Decay Looms Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teeth are one of the first parts of our body to become seriously damaged as the years go by, thanks to bacterial agents, but that will soon enough be a thing of the past. On the one hand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2010\/06\/regeneration-of-tooth-enamel-cavities-healed-in-mice.php\">enamel regeneration is close to realization<\/a>, and on the other hand so are ways of eliminating the agents of tooth decay: &#8220;A new mouthwash developed by a microbiologist at the UCLA School of Dentistry is highly successful in targeting the harmful <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Streptococcus_mutans\">Streptococcus mutans<\/a> bacteria that is the principal cause tooth decay and cavities. In a recent clinical study, 12 subjects who rinsed just one time with the experimental mouthwash experienced a nearly complete elimination of the S. mutans bacteria over the entire four-day testing period. &#8230; This new mouthwash is the product of nearly a decade of research conducted by Wenyuan Shi &#8230; Shi developed a new antimicrobial technology called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2863653\" \/>STAMP (specifically targeted anti-microbial peptides)<\/a> [which] acts as a sort of &#8217;smart bomb,&#8217; eliminating only the harmful bacteria and remaining effective for an extended period. &#8230; With this new antimicrobial technology, we have the prospect of actually wiping out tooth decay in our lifetime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/11\/111116045657.htm\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/11\/111116045657.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm\">http:\/\/www.longevitymeme.org\/newsletter\/latest_rss_feed.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/feed\/\">http:\/\/www.longevitymedicine.tv\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teeth are one of the first parts of our body to become seriously damaged as the years go by, thanks to bacterial agents, but that will soon enough be a thing of the past. On the one hand enamel regeneration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/longevity-medicine\/the-end-of-tooth-decay-looms-large.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1246678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longevity-medicine"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}