A permanent vaccine against tooth cavity & decay is coming, saving all of us from dental hell

On a scale of one to hundred, where one is very likely and hundred is least likely, most sane people (if given a choice) would rate going to the dentist for a cavity check up somewhere near infinity. Avoid at all cost!

Yet, in the interest of preserving our pearly white mouth necklace, we have to visit the dentist to keep our teeth in tip top shape. But thanks to a vaccine which is in the works, we won't have to visit dentists in the future.

According to the latest issue of Nature, there's an urgent need for a vaccine against tooth decay, and it points towards encouraging research emerging from China which could finally take us to the promised land.

The report cites the spirited work of scientists at Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who are very close to developing a permanent vaccine preventing tooth decay in humans.

The Chinese research team has already developed a low side effects and high protective efficiency vaccine candidate, which has almost passed tests conducted on rats with flying colours. In rat challenge models, the protein-based compounds KFD2-rPAc was found to have induced a robust rPAc-specific IgA response, ensuring efficient prophylactic and therapeutic efficiency.

The next stage of the research involves clinical human trials. If everything goes to plan, thanks to the Chinese, we may finally have a vaccine against tooth decay in the next few years.

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