'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by splawn on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @02:56PM (#13368350)

.....but we are talking about healthcare. Safety should trump all other things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primum_non_nocere

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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by ptaipale on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @01:35AM (#13372190)

If safety absolutely trumps all other things, then there can be no trials of anything (because by definition, a trial is there to experiment and find out about possible safety issues) and there would be no development of new medicines at all.

That would not mean staying where we are, it would mean starting to slowly go backwards in the tools available for health care (because e.g. some antibiotics are slowly becoming inefficient and new ones should be developed - and currently the world is not doing enough of that.)

See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2095020/

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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by splawn on Friday January 13, 2017 @05:33PM (#13395390)

that is disingenuous... as you said "a trial is there to experiment and find out about possible safety issues". You have to test drugs before you can feed them to everyone safely.... but you obviously already knew that and just wanted to be contrarian.

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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by zzzzz99997 on Thursday January 12, 2017 @08:36AM (#13382041)

..no. Treating sick people and improving the health of our species should trump all other things.

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Re:'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings by splawn on Friday January 13, 2017 @05:34PM (#13395398)

I will just cross my fingers that you eat a bunch of untested drugs then... for your health! :D

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