Walking into a dentist's office could be less of a frightening thing in the future if scientists Kyle Vining, of Harvard, and Adam Celiz, of the British University of Nottingham, have anything to do with it.
Since the 1700s, when modern dentistry began to evolve, people have assumed that the parts of teeth damaged by cavities were gone for good and that there was nothing to be done except drilling out the decay and filling the remaining tooth with some kind of enamel or metal. That entire paradigm is changing.
Vining and Celiz have just won a prize at the Royal Society of Chemistry's emerging technology competition for creating a synthetic biomaterial that stimulates stem cells native to your teeth to repair them.
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