Immunisation against dental decay?
■ From JOHN ROSS in London A vaccination given to six-month-old babies may soon provide immunisation against dental decay, according to a London doctor. Professor T. Lehner, professor of oral immunology at Guy’s Hospital, said in an article in the “New Scientist” that tests on rats and monkeys had shown that injections of a substance known as streptococcus mutans reduced dental decay by between 60 and 80 per cent in
Rhesus monkeys. Caries (dental decay) was man’s commonest disease, and was responsible for a great deal of pain, loss of time from school and industry, “and considerable cost in treatment which may be associated with discomfort and anxiety,” said Professor Lehner. The development of decay required two ingredients; sugar (principally sucrose), and strep-mutans (a cariogenic bacteria which dissolves tooth enamel).
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