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I tracked down the guy who invented this, if this is the version you're thinking of, and wrote him. It wasn't a vaccine so much as it was a replacement of your

I tracked down the guy who invented this, if this is the version you're thinking of, and wrote him. It wasn't a vaccine so much as it was a replacement of your oral flora and fauna with a non-cavity causing bacteria. This was maybe twelve years ago, but he said essentially that the FDA really really really didn't like the idea, and he had to sell off bits and pieces of the concept.

cosmojg 4y ago
This sounds amazing! Got any more info? Where can I find this guy and his patents? I wonder if I can whip something up at home...
- dennis_jeeves1 4y ago
  Count me in, I too am interested.
- Firmwarrior 4y ago
  Be sure to post a "Show HN" when you start selling unregulated oral biome replacements out of international waters, so I can partake
dennis_jeeves1 4y ago
Mind emailing me (email on my profile) all details that you dug up?
jh00ker 4y ago
OMG! I came here to post a question asking if anyone remembered this, thinking surely someone in the HN crowd familiar with it would see this post and click into the comments! Where can we learn more about it? I heard about it sometime between mid-2006 and late-2009.
fbdab103 4y ago
I think the real question - did the inventor ever dose himself with the concoction?
at_a_remove 4y ago
I couldn't find my original stuff but ... Dr. Jeffrey Hillman, previously of Oragenics. Looks like he retired just after we corresponded, no surprise there. He had a version of strepococcus mutans that not only did not dump lactic acid (the mechanism behind dental caries), but also secreted MU1140, helping it out-compete the "bad" strepococcus mutans in your mouth. Well, it's still in the pipeline, maybe, at https://www.oragenics.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/35/oragenics-receives-new-patent-for-improved-replacement https://www.oragenics.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/3... ... but right now you can still get Probiora3, which is more of a probiotic for your mouth, kind of the more viable piece, since a one-time treatment replacing bacteria is a little scary to some. Hope this helps.

cosmojg 4y ago

This sounds amazing! Got any more info? Where can I find this guy and his patents? I wonder if I can whip something up at home...

dennis_jeeves1 4y ago
Count me in, I too am interested.
Firmwarrior 4y ago
Be sure to post a "Show HN" when you start selling unregulated oral biome replacements out of international waters, so I can partake

dennis_jeeves1 4y ago

Mind emailing me (email on my profile) all details that you dug up?

jh00ker 4y ago

OMG! I came here to post a question asking if anyone remembered this, thinking surely someone in the HN crowd familiar with it would see this post and click into the comments! Where can we learn more about it? I heard about it sometime between mid-2006 and late-2009.

fbdab103 4y ago

I think the real question - did the inventor ever dose himself with the concoction?

at_a_remove 4y ago

I couldn't find my original stuff but ... Dr. Jeffrey Hillman, previously of Oragenics. Looks like he retired just after we corresponded, no surprise there. He had a version of strepococcus mutans that not only did not dump lactic acid (the mechanism behind dental caries), but also secreted MU1140, helping it out-compete the "bad" strepococcus mutans in your mouth. Well, it's still in the pipeline, maybe, at https://www.oragenics.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/35/oragenics-receives-new-patent-for-improved-replacement https://www.oragenics.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/3... ... but right now you can still get Probiora3, which is more of a probiotic for your mouth, kind of the more viable piece, since a one-time treatment replacing bacteria is a little scary to some. Hope this helps.