Study: Mineral Gel Creates New Layer of Tooth Enamel in 48 Hours

Study: Mineral Gel Creates New Layer of Tooth Enamel in 48 Hours

https://returntonow.net/2022/12/27/scientists-figure-out-how-regrow-tooth-enamel/

STUDY: Mineral Gel Creates New Layer of Tooth Enamel in 48 Hours
Scientists discovered an ionized mineral gel that stimulates rapid growth of new tooth enamel in 2019, so why are we still filling cavities with metal and plastic?



Have a cavity? Instead of filling it with metal or plastic, soon you could just grow your tooth back thanks to a new discovery.

Scientists have created a gel that stimulates the growth of new tooth enamel.

A substance chemists have never been able to recreate, tooth enamel is the hardest tissue in the human body.

We grow enamel in our youth, but once it is mature, it has little ability to regenerate or repair itself… until now.

Chinese scientists have developed a gel made of calcium phosphate ion clusters that triggers the growth of a thin new layer of enamel in just 48 hours.

They’ve published their findings in the journal Science Advances.

The gel “can be used to induce the epitaxial crystal growth of enamel apatite, which mimics the biomineralisation crystalline-amorphous frontier of hard tissue development in nature,” lead author of the study Zhaoming Liu writes.

When painted on donated decayed human teeth, the gel created a new layer of enamel 3 micrometers thick.

While that’s nearly 400 times thinner than the natural enamel layer of our teeth, the researchers think repeated applications could fully repair even the deepest of cavities.

“We hope to realise tooth enamel regrowth without using fillings which contain totally different materials and we hope, if all goes smoothly, to start trials in people within one to two years,” Liu told Sky News.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716959/

Amazing. But I'm wondering how many visits to the dentist will it take to completely fill in a good sized cavity. You might need to win the lottery to pay for it.

That's amazing! Great post CS!

Is there anyway we can get our hands on this gel or anything like it we can make, use, apply?

MikeGore wrote:That's amazing! Great post CS!

Is there anyway we can get our hands on this gel or anything like it we can make, use, apply?

Yes, it is possible to produce a gel that can regenerate tooth enamel. Scientists have developed a material composed of calcium phosphate ion clusters that can be used to produce a precursor layer to induce the epitaxial crystal growth of enamel apatite, which mimics the biomineralization crystalline-amorphous frontier of hard tissue development in nature. After repair, the damaged enamel can be recovered completely because its hierarchical structure and mechanical properties are identical to those of natural enamel 3. The effect of calcium phosphate ion clusters in enhancing enamel regeneration has been tested based on ion dissolution and surface roughness

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36127810/

More details here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41368-018-0038-6

Closest thing for the moment

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Good to see new approaches being developed for this problem.

I am skeptical of the image though as that shows not just enamel damage, but cavitation affecting the pulp and dentin layers.

Some time back we had some posts about stem cell approach to reverse damage once the pulp has been affected.