Sci-fi… in dentistry?
by: Christine Zafra
If you think only the movie Minority Report can predict what’s going to happen in the future, then think twice. This has something to do with a person’s teeth (not pre-crime though) and saliva (again, not the pre-cognitive). Researchers from the University of Southern California said that they have developed something useful for the world of dentistry. With the use of a child’s saliva (a swab or a drop maybe), they can now determine (30 – 40 years from testing) if that child will get cavities, which of the forming teeth will have cavities and how many. Talk about Sci-fi!