Scientists Have Discovered a Drug That Fixes Cavities and Regrows Teeth The drug has already been trialled in Alzheimer's patients, so fast-tracking into dental offices may be next.

Cavities, or tooth decay, are small holes in the teeth. As a result, there is no natural way to remove them at home. Only a dentist can fix a cavity by filling it in.

Natural tooth repair method, using Alzheimer's drug, could revolutionize dental treatments. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 01 / 170109092624.htm ...

Dental fillings may soon become a thing of the past, as scientists have found a way to renew living stem cells in tooth pulp using an Alzheimer's drug which could help naturally repair decaying ...

Dental fillings may soon be left in the ash heap of history, thanks to a recent discovery about a drug called Tideglusib. Developed for and trialled to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the drug also happens ...

The paper 'Promotion of natural tooth repair by small molecule GSK3 antagonists' by Vitor Neves, Rebecca Babb, Dhivya Chandrasekaran and Paul T Sharpe will be published in Scientific Reports at ...

The KCL statement added: “The novel, biological approach could see teeth use their natural ability to repair large cavities rather than using cements or fillings, which are prone to infections ...

Researchers have found a way to regenerate rotten teeth. Using a drug normally given to treat those with Alzheimer’s, a team of scientists have managed to repair cavities by stimulating the ...

When this happens, your body creates a band of dentine—a material that naturally protects your tooth—to seal your tooth pulp. However, this method doesn’t repair large cavities, ...

A new method of stimulating the renewal of living stem cells in tooth pulp using an Alzheimer’s drug has been discovered by a team of researchers at King’s College London. Following trauma or an ...