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Re:Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet by burkaman on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:27PM (#37635156)
Yeah, if it's in "patent hell and FDA hell" there should be applications and evidence of that online, right?
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Re:Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet by prepend on Sunday September 24, 2023 @01:41PM (#37635322)
Patent hell should be over if this was invented in 1985.
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Re:Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet by pas on Sunday September 24, 2023 @02:13PM (#37635660)
who knows. maybe invented as a concept and then developed as a concrete dentistry protocol, which then got parented recently?
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Re:Cavities were cured in 1985, and no one knows it yet by prepend on Sunday September 24, 2023 @02:17PM (#37635693)
Good point. But that would be odd then to present it as solved in 1985 if only recently was figured out how to put it into a protocol. That would be a new innovation rather than “been around forever but never used.”
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