'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by Coincoin on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:44PM (#13361816)

You are not pessimistic. It's another one of those thing that have been only a few years away from commercialization for 20 years now.

This is happening so often, there must be a name or a law for that.

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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by 13of40 on Monday January 09, 2017 @09:33PM (#13362058)

Reminds me of a successful experiment where they caused mice to develop an immunity to plaque bacteria. I read about that in a dental training manual I found in a thrift shop about 20 years ago. Had photos of healthy rat teeth and everything.

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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by sobani on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @08:00AM (#13364478)

According to a researcher on a recent Radiolab episode[1], 99.6% of results on mice don't replicate to humans. I assume for rats a similar figure applies.

[1] http://www.radiolab.org/story/bringing-gamma-back (about treating Alzheimer’s disease with light)

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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by simonsarris on Monday January 09, 2017 @08:48PM (#13361837)

Pessimistically, that name is "Stagnation Hypothesis"

(edit, oops the term Peter Thiel/Tyler Cowen like is "Great Stagnation." See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_yJTCDU4uE)

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