No more pain ... as few as five minutes laser treatment is enough to activate a healing process in the mouth. Picture: Thinkstock Source: News Limited
GREAT news for odontophobes – scientists have discovered a way to make rotting teeth repair themselves using a laser beam.
The pain associated with invasive dental surgery and the need for fillings may become a thing of the past, the London Telegraph reports.
Researchers have discovered that as few as five minutes laser treatment was enough to activate a healing process in the mouth, which may prevent the need for fillings for some kinds of decay. The hope is it will also eliminate the need for root canal surgery.
Low cost ... a visit to the dentist may become far more affordable. Picture: Thinkstock Source: News Limited
After blasting by intense light, a chemical in the mouth was activated that stimulated stem cells within the tooth to form new dentine – the hard core of the tooth – around three months later.
Experiments so far have only taken place on rats, but researcher Praveen Arany, of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Maryland, hopes to test the technique on people soon.
"The approach seems to be pretty straightforward and although it sounds high tech, the technology is not prohibitively expensive," said Dr Dusko Ilic, Senior Lecturer Cell Science, King's College London. "Quite contrary, it is low cost."
Fillings may still be necessary for some types of tooth decay, according to the study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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