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Is There a Future for Oral Health?

The idea of nanoparticles for oral health isn't that crazy. They could basically put your teeth in almost like a mouthpiece thing, put it up in there and then have these magnets energizing in the right pattern on the side to let the iron nanoparticles do the work. I was just amazed to find that it only took 43 hours when they're getting their experimental system up. But if it takes, you know, like 24 hours, in this case, 43 hours for the bacteria form, my dentist always tells me thatyou can get a cavity in 24 hours.

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