{"id":8737,"date":"2018-01-11T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/new-dental-material-can-resist-biofilm-growth-and-kills-bacteria\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:00:16","slug":"new-dental-material-can-resist-biofilm-growth-and-kills-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/new-dental-material-can-resist-biofilm-growth-and-kills-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"New Dental Material Can Resist Biofilm Growth And Kills Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an antibacterial resin for dental procedures such as cavity fillings. They hope that the material can provide improved fillings that resist tooth decay and last longer. Conventional materials for dental fillings are prone to being covered in plaque, a sticky biofilm that can lead to tooth decay and filling failure. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on developing something better. \u201cDental biomaterials such as these,\u201d said Geelsu Hwang, a researcher involved in the study, \u201cneed to achieve two goals: first, they should kill pathogenic microbes effectively, and, second, they need to withstand severe mechanical stress, as happens when we bite and chew.\u201d Hwang and his colleagues have developed a new dent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"medworm\">\n<p><b><i>MedWorm Message:<\/i><\/b> Have you tried our new <a href=\"https:\/\/medworm.com\/\">medical search engine<\/a>? More powerful than before. Log on with your social media account. 100% free.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/medworm.com\/479315069\/new-dental-material-can-resist-biofilm-growth-and-kills-bacteria\/\">MedWorm: Dentistry News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an antibacterial resin for dental procedures such as cavity fillings. They hope that the material can provide improved fillings that resist tooth decay and last longer. Conventional materials for dental fillings are prone to being covered in plaque, a sticky biofilm that can lead to tooth decay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[189,1724,97,225,10481,169,10480],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-bacteria","tag-biofilm","tag-dental","tag-growth","tag-kills","tag-material","tag-resist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-2gV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}