The Future of Teeth and Dental Medicine
At the RE News section for the Mprize website I have in the past introduced a several new dental procedures that promise to keep us in teeth during longer years of life lived through the auspices of Life Extension technologies. There is the article, "New jaw bone grown in back of man", which one could apply to the rebuilding of damaged jaw bones when the worst happens or peridontal disease takes it's toll on teeth and their substructure. There is also, "[Magic] Toothpaste fixes cavities as they appear", which better than ever controls cavities keeping teeth from decay and loss for far lobger. And finally there is, "Research fills dental need", about newer improved filling methods. One may also have heard of Stem Cell technology for producing "Tooth Buds" for replacing lost teeth. Those should replace the technology that is now replacing dentures -- the implants mentioned in this article below.
Imagine a world without dentures...
By Debra McCown, USA TODAY Mon Dec 5, 7:23 AM ET
There are people out there who don't floss their teeth.
Shocked? Some of them don't brush, either. Some damage their teeth by smoking. And some never go to the dentist.
Even so, oral health is improving.
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health found that oral health has improved among all age groups, all racial groups, and all income levels. It also found that the proportion of adults over 60 who have lost all their teeth has dropped from one-third to one-fourth over the past decade.
The non-brushing minority aside, nowadays most people know how to take care of their teeth, and in addition to toothpaste and fluoridated water, today's young people are experiencing the benefits of advances such as dental sealants, which help prevent teeth from decaying.
Consequently, there are those, including Richard Price, spokesman for the American Dental Association, who can see the day when people don't have to wear dentures anymore.[continued]
posted by FutureQ at The Future of Teeth and Dental Medicine
2 Comments:
I really like the idea of your organization. So much has already changed in the past decade in the dental health industry; I'm just excited to see what continues to change and how we can better help our patients.
Thanks John.
Though I am no longer active with the Methuselah Foundation (one of 7 founding volunteers) and its affiliate, my friend Aubrey de Grey's Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, I still follow their work and support them financially, albeit in a very small way.
You may be interested to know that MF helped start Organova a company leading the way in 3D organ & tissue engineering printing using computer inkjet printer technology to lay down stem cells in precise position to build layer by layer a replacement organ made from a patients own adult stem cells.
You may be aware the science of returning any cell of the body to a pluripotent state, i.e. able to become any type of tissue needed, was some time ago worked out. This should have ended any debate over embryonic stem cells but this election season certain individuals still try to rile up the faithful of their science ignorant ilk to get their vote.
Thanks for commenting on my much neglected blog.
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