The OPTISMILE Podcast 131 - The Smart Tooth (Bioactive Materials)
Welcome back to Save Your Money, Save Your Teeth. In the previous episode, Eon Engelbrecht and Dr Clifford Yudelman looked at 4D printing and shape memory aligners. This episode stays with clever materials, but turns to the ones that go inside the tooth itself: bioactive materials that release minerals, fight acid and claim to help a tooth protect itself.
They cover what "bioactive" really means, whether a filling can help a tooth heal, how MTA can protect a nerve and avoid a root canal, why the edges of a filling matter so much, and what is real versus marketing in "self-healing" fillings…
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