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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:36:25 EDT
Subject: Re: Teeth problems

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In a message dated 8/2/01 2:01:54 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
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>  <Anyway, a combination of the protein and the minerals would let you make a 
> synthetic filling/crowning material that would be exactly the same as 
> natural teeth. 

Don't hold your breath for FDA approval. >

Currently, there is no true filling material that is 'exactly the same as 
natural teeth'.  The best crop of restorative materials for teeth are 
composites, or composite polymer crowns.   There has been talk of cloning 
enamel from tooth genes, but that is still a fantasy.  However, even if it 
were possible, it would still be just another innovative restorative 
material.  Dentistry is 'overkilled' with excellent filler materials.  The 
true breakthroughs, i.e., growing a tooth/treating periodontal disease from 
assembler nanotech is perhaps decades away.  (Yes, I wish it were sooner) 

Note: The most common cause of tooth loss, and its attendant problems, is 
from periodontitis, or gum disease, in those of us over 30.  Green Tea is of 
limited help here, since it cannot adequately break up the disease-producing 
bacteria that reside in calcified colonies on the root surfaces of the teeth.

Ed Reifman, MS, DDS
www.greatsmiles.la


In the meantime, drink green tea, it kills 
> streptococcus mutans. -Bill Walker
> 
> 



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