<story><title>Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (2014)</title><url>https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/05/researchers-use-light-to-coax-stem-cells-to-repair-teeth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>I hope this process becomes part of mainstream dental medicine. Our current dental technology feels backward compared to other fields of medicine</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petra</author><text>The ideal dental treatment would be a dental vaccine(against the mouth bacteria that destroys teeth and harms gums), letting future people not even being aware to dental issues(or maybe just use a monthly&amp;#x2F;weekly mouthwash). . there was even a startup aiming for that but it stopped due to fda and problems creating a trial.&lt;p&gt;Hopefully someone like Google finishes that up.</text></comment>
<story><title>Researchers use light to coax stem cells to repair teeth (2014)</title><url>https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2014/05/researchers-use-light-to-coax-stem-cells-to-repair-teeth</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kyriakos</author><text>I hope this process becomes part of mainstream dental medicine. Our current dental technology feels backward compared to other fields of medicine</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>angersock</author><text>Eh?&lt;p&gt;Dentistry is one of the few fields of medicine that seems to know exactly how to fix whatever is ailing you and can do so at a cost that can be reasonably borne out-of-pocket without the clowncar of the insurance industry showing up.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d say that it&amp;#x27;s a huge success!</text></comment>