Device regrows teeth with ultrasound.

[broli]

This is actually a one year old video and the report itself is claimed to be dated from 2006. This is huge and can cripple the billion dollar dental industry overnight. So I'm not in the least surprised why it hasn't been released yet as a consumer product.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LW49Kxa_FI

I'll add more info as I find out more.


Papers and articles of Dr. Tarek El-Bialy:
http://www.dent.ualberta.ca/elbialyresearch.cfm

Patent Application:
www.google.com/patents/US8079966

LIPUS info:
http://lipus.org/

This is about our fifty fourth month test of using LIPUS to regrow pulp, dentin, and possible cementum at an accelerated rate for mature and senior people. The process invigorates the inside of our teeth for increased healthier tissue. The added growth of dentin bolsters the enamel as it was when you were a younger person.

In addition to the above an increase of density in mandible bone and upper tooth support solidifies tooth roots. Our experience shows a solid bite equal to that in our teenage years. The ringing of teeth when biting down hard, which we had forgotten entirely, was back again.

Professor Paul Sharpe, Head of the Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London stated: “A key medical advantage of this new technology is that a living tooth can preserve the health of the surrounding tissues much better than artificial prosthesis. Teeth are living, and they are able to respond to a person’s bite. They move, and in doing so they maintain the health of the surrounding gums and teeth.”

At the present time our technology is at the stage where regrowing teeth is limited to teeth with live roots. The inner part of the tooth, dentin is alive and in regrowing will expand into its initial, youthful proportions. The dentin thereby puts equal pressure on the Enamel part of the tooth as in a younger person. This naturally recurring rejuvenation has a propensity to expel such parts of the tooth enamel which have previously been broken, which may result in its loss.

EXOGEN's low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujOnP0jguho

[Qwert]

WOW!  There is more info on the net after google-ing "Tarek El-Bialy regrow teeth". Also on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_intensity_pulsed_ultrasound

[MasterPlaster]

Thanks for a very interesting post.

Low intensity pulsed ultrasound:  A laboratory and clinical promoter in tissue engineering:

http://www.intechopen.com/download/pdf/pdfs_id/9813

[Bob Smith]

Anyone heard anything recently about this?
The inventor is Dr. Tareek Al Bialy. I think the 2 others who got it into more user-friendly (miniaturized) form are Dr. Jie Chen and his associate Dr. Ying Tsui.  All 3 were working on it in Alberta, Canada.

I figure someone must've paid to have the patent shelved, but the cat's out of the bag - i.e., that Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPUS) regenerates tooth and jaw tissue.  You'd think somebody would've come along and produced a useable version that doesn't violate the patent.

Most recent info I could find:
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/utica-ny/TL8KFFTPCU8VMR6FG/p3

Anyone have any leads on who might be making this device available?
Bob

[Mr_Alex]

Anyone heard anything recently about this?
The inventor is Dr. Tareek Al Bialy. I think the 2 others who got it into more user-friendly (miniaturized) form are Dr. Jie Chen and his associate Dr. Ying Tsui.  All 3 were working on it in Alberta, Canada.

I figure someone must've paid to have the patent shelved, but the cat's out of the bag - i.e., that Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPUS) regenerates tooth and jaw tissue.  You'd think somebody would've come along and produced a useable version that doesn't violate the patent.

Most recent info I could find:
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/utica-ny/TL8KFFTPCU8VMR6FG/p3

Anyone have any leads on who might be making this device available?
Bob

There is a manufacturer called Novasonic that manufactures these ultrasound machines

http://novasonicwest.com/cart/

Another one happens to be Exogen too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZPJyZbAGP0

clinicaltrials.gov happens to have a record of a trial being done:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00423956