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News
Perthshire firm aims to put decay in ‘time warp’
New technology claims to be able to help teeth ‘remineralise’
Former Dundee Dental School dean Professor Nigel Pitts (right) is one of the brains behind a revolutionary new device that aims to put tooth decay in a ‘time warp’. Prof Pitts and his colleague
Dr Chris Longbottom, himself a Dundee graduate, are the co-founders of Reminova, a new company set up to develop technologies in the fields of caries treatment, prevention and management, as well as tooth whitening. The company is the first
spin-out from the King’s College London Dental Innovation and Translation Centre which
was launched in January 2013. The centre was formed to take research and novel technologies and turn them into products. And, while the national press
has been happily predicting the end of drilling and filling, the official Kings College press release was a little more circumspect in its predictions, announcing that “dentists could soon by giving your teeth a mild ‘time warp’ to encourage them to self-repair”. It continued: “The tech-
nology aims to take the pain out of tooth decay treatment by electrically reversing
Implant company
in talks over sale Nobel Biocare confirms that discussions with potential buyers for
the business are “at a very early stage” Swiss dental implant company Nobel Biocare has confirmed that it has been approached by potential buyers with a view to acquiring the business. However, the manufac- turer insisted that any talks of a sale are in the early stages and may not go any further.
Bloomberg News reported on 29 July that the company had been exploring a sale for some time and is currently working with Goldman Sachs on a potential transaction. In response, Nobel Biocare released the following statement: “The company confirms that it has been approached by third parties
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the process to help teeth ‘remineralise’. “The two-step method
developed by Reminova first prepares the damaged part of the enamel outer layer of the tooth, then uses a tiny electric current to ‘push’ minerals into the tooth to repair the damaged site. “The defect is remineral-
ised in a painless process that requires no drills, no injec- tions and no filling materials. Electric currents are already used by dentists to check the pulp or nerve of a tooth; the new device uses a far smaller current than that currently
used on patients and which cannot be felt by the patient. “The technique, known
as Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralisa- tion (EAER), could be brought to market within three years.”
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