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Probably almost everyone reading this article has pieces of gutta percha in their bodies, because it remains the filler material of choice for dental root canal
by kragen 1y ago
Probably almost everyone reading this article has pieces of gutta percha in their bodies, because it remains the filler material of choice for dental root canals.
- porridgeraisin 1y agoAlmost everyone reading this would have had a root canal procedure done?
- kragen 1y agoI had estimated upwards of 90% given that the article is targeted at English-speaking adults, but https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/iej.13822 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/iej.13822 suggests that I may have overestimated—across Europe only 60% of people had had a root canal, with less variation between countries than I had expected. So maybe only 75% of the people reading the article have gutta percha in their mouths.