An Interview With Dr. Tarek El-Bialy On Using Ultrasound To Regenerate Tooth Dentin

A few days ago we got a comment by someone calling themselves Pete who linked to an interview given where the Canadian Dr. Tarek El-Bialy was being interviewed on his Ultrasound Device & technology to use to regrow teeth, but stimulating the root of the teeth.

Originally we had written about the technology in a very old post “Teeth Regrowth Using Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound, LIPUS“. The researcher we mentioned in that article was a Dr. Jie Chen, also in Canada who claimed that they could use Ultrasound to not just make bones heal fractures but make people grow taller, which was something that was edited into the Wikipedia article on LIPUS (Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound). Tyler really got into the idea of using LIPUS and really deep into LIPUS but I had written in the past year a few times showing multiple articles which disprove the idea that Ultrasound would ever lead to increased longitudinal growth in the long bones. Yes, LIPUS machines are already on sale at rather cheap prices, so if there was real evidence in articles and the scientific literature that shows the really small LIPUS devices does any even the slightest chance of increasing longitudinal growth, I would recommend the portable LIPUS devices on this website, since they are just around $30-$50 each, and may be even free if one has the right type of medical insurance.

In fact, I recently downloaded the PDF of an old article I had eluded to to reread the implications on what would happen if you continuously emit ultrasound in lab test rabbits growth plates. (Effect of continuous therapeutic ultrasound in rabbit growth plates).

However, the technology of LIPUS on nerve tissue and teeth regeneration is much more promising. As Dr. El-Bialy (Associate Professor of Orthodontics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada) seems to suggest, LIPUS can regenerate damaged nerves and root pulp.

You can download the MP3 of that interview wth Dr. El-Bialy Available Here

It may not be our primary focus, but learning about the science of teeth and regeneration of teeth might lead to less money we have to spend at the dentist office in the future.