I believe that many people have had the experience of toothache. When there is a hole in the tooth, the doctor's advice is to go to the hospital to fill in some of the filler, and expect it to automatically repair is impossible.
But now it is impossible not to say forever impossible. Recently, the British King's College London researchers in Nature's journal 《science report》 published an article that they found a replacement tooth hole filling repair method, which is used for Tideglusib drugs for treatment of Alzheimer's disease in vivo stimulation of stem cells in the teeth to update the self repair damaged teeth.
The researchers noted that the dental pulp contains a certain amount of mesenchymal stem cells, can develop into teeth, bone and cartilage. This also means that in some small cracks or cracks in the teeth of the case, these cells will differentiate into odontoblast specific, while the latter can generate new dentin and fill the damaged area.
Of course, when the teeth visible to the naked eye, the automatic repair function is somewhat powerless. Therefore, the researchers found that under the stimulation of Tideglusib drugs, the ability to self repair will be greatly enhanced, can fill the hole area also increased significantly.
However, this approach is not immediately put into clinical use, the researchers said the current plan is to start clinical trials next year.
That is a very happy thing for all of us, especially for sweet children, no longer afraid of decayed tooth.