I am going to take a chance and say that very few people enjoy going to the dentist, especially for a filling. A dentist usually treats a cavity by removing the damaged part of the tooth. Then they fill the hole with porcelain or a combination of silver and other metals. Oftentimes fillings need replaced during the patient’s lifetime. But is filling the cavity with a foreign material really the best treatment? What if the tooth could repair itself with its own material dentine? That is what researchers at King's College London are studying. They have found a process that may replace the traditional method. Researchers say they may be close to perfecting a method of helping teeth to repair themselves. They say the treatment may make the filling of a cavity a thing of the past.
Title: Drug Helps Teeth Repair Themselves
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1771/tooth_drug.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Drug Helps Teeth Repair Themselves' data-article-id='2289'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15771'>I am going to take a chance and say that very few people enjoy going to the dentist, especially for a filling.</span> <span data-start-time='15771' data-end-time='22771'>A dentist usually treats a cavity by removing the damaged part of the tooth.</span> <span data-start-time='22771' data-end-time='30042'>Then they fill the hole with porcelain or a combination of silver and other metals.</span> <span data-start-time='30042' data-end-time='36208'>Oftentimes fillings need replaced during the patient’s lifetime.</span> <span data-start-time='36208' data-end-time='42042'>But is filling the cavity with a foreign material really the best treatment?</span> <span data-start-time='42042' data-end-time='48708'>What if the tooth could repair itself with its own material dentine?</span> <span data-start-time='48708' data-end-time='54313'>That is what researchers at King's College London are studying.</span> <span data-start-time='54313' data-end-time='59708'>They have found a process that may replace the traditional method.</span> <span data-start-time='59708' data-end-time='67729'>Researchers say they may be close to perfecting a method of helping teeth to repair themselves.</span> <span data-start-time='67729' data-end-time='74104'>They say the treatment may make the filling of a cavity a thing of the past.</span> 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