Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells...
by russdill on Thursday February 01, 2018 @03:52PM
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It's not a paperclip thing and it's not new. It's a sterile instrument specifically intended for that purpose.
Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells...
by geoelectric on Thursday February 01, 2018 @06:59PM
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He's saying you can autoinoculate the patient from one pocket to another by using the same probe across your mouth without sterilizing between teeth. It might hasten the spread of periodontitis to areas of the gums it might not have spread to otherwise.
Translation only, I have no data here aside from that my hygienist does seem to use the same probe without doing much between teeth when my gums are measured this way.
Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells...
by russdill on Friday February 02, 2018 @02:35AM
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It's been researched:
http://www.rdhmag.com/articles/print/volume-24/issue-9/colum...
Bacteria already have a great chance to move around the mouth. Healthy pockets are healthy not because they haven't been exposed to bacteria, but because they are place bacteria can't get a foothold.
These paperclips have the potential to infect healthy gum tissue with nasty anaerobic bacteria from pockets that are already infected. Unless you use one clip per pocket, of course.
If you want good measurements of disease progression, it's much better to use e.g. a BANA test that estimates pathogenic bacteria counts. Or if you are really fancy, sample some gum pockets and get a bit of 16S sequencing done with a MinION.