The upper jaw from an El Sidron Neanderthal. This individual was eating poplar, a source of aspirin, and had also consumed moldy vegetation including Penicillium fungus, source of a natural antibiotic.
Category: Dentistry
Notes from the Dentist: Do the Thing You Dread First
I, like many people, do not love going to the dentist. I don’t have a phobia of it, but I can think of a million better ways to spend my time.
Stem cells could one day replace the work of dental fillings, study shows
The stem cells in our teeth can be energized to fill in chips, cracks, and cavities, researchers say, and the findings could one day make dental cement obsolete. The work has been conducted just in mice so far, but the research , published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports , highlights a way to motivate stem cells to repair tooth defects at a scale they normally can’t, with a drug that already has some safety testing behind it.