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Soon, prevent cavities with a yogurt or a piece of cheese could be possible. The Genomics and Health area of the newly opened Center for Advanced Research in Public Health has announced that Valencia will develop an anticaries yogurt after isolating an “inhibitor” of the bacteria that cause dental disease.
This was explained Alejandro Mira, one of the leaders of this investigation, who did not rule enter into other products such as cheese or mouthwash. See also stressed that his department is “unique in the world” that launched this project and said it is working on a vaccine against tooth decay.
As explained from the CSISP, the idea presented is a yogurt, cheese or rinse anticaries to work in an “equivalent” as does the active bifidus bacteria, only to be replaced by “this type of bacteria that inhibit the development of the bacteria that cause tooth decay. ” However, the researchers declined to give details about the study because of patents.
The researcher Alberto Mira, who was speaking before the President of the Generalitat Valenciana, Francisco Camps, inaugurated the research center said that caries is a disease that affects 90% of the population and whose treatment is not covered by public health. Read the rest of this entry »