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It's Friday, August 12th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Could chewing gum and micro robots replace your toothbrush? Plus a Lord Byron themed RPG and get paid to indulge in every pumpkin-spiced item at Trader Joe's.

Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

With some minor updates, we've basically been brushing our teeth the same way for millennia

by putting sticks with bristles on them into our mouths and removing the plaque,

or biofilm. Sure, now we've got electric toothbrushes you buy from podcast ads, as well as flossing,

deep mechanical cleanings from dentists, an array of fluoride and non-fluoride mouthwashes,

and tons of advances in dental surgery. Yes, overall,

we've come a long way since the days of Doc Holliday and his assertion that the only tool a

dentist needs is a good pair of pliers. But the day-to-day act of brushing, that is a concept

that's been relatively unchanged. Perhaps not for long. Dentists and engineers

meeting earlier this summer at the Center for Innovation in Precision Dentistry's first ever

symposium have some pretty incredible ideas about what the future of dentistry could look like.

Barrelief Benderly covered the symposium for Neo-Life. Biochemist Henry Daniel

and biomolecular engineer Dionne Lee are working on a chewing gum that could destroy the biofilm

on your teeth, essentially accomplishing the act of brushing to remove plaque, while also delivering

a bevy of custom pharmaceuticals.

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