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Looks like it is not very new, there are other articles on it: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech-and-agri/breakthrough-dentistry/art
by amalag 13y ago
Looks like it is not very new, there are other articles on it:
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech-and-agri/breakthrough-dentistry/article5081112.ece http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-sci-tech...
Here is the medical paper
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112478 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112478
Here is the patent
http://www.google.com/patents/US20120231422 http://www.google.com/patents/US20120231422
And this is the picture worth a thousand words
http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US20120231422A1/US20120231422A1-20120913-D00000.png http://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/US20120231422A1/U...
- spikels 13y agoThanks! More bad journalism about medical research. Why is this so hard? Is it that the reporter simply cannot understand it? Or it is purposely distorted to make it more appealing to readers? I think it is usually a combination of both of these reasons.
- aestra 13y ago"..misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- spikels 13y agoI completely agree that ignorance and laziness are much more representative of humane behavior than deceit and evil. And I believe it is just good practice to always assume the best intentions in others for your own peace and happiness. However in this case the 'painless' claim which is the most appealing element of the story appears to have been made up - it appears nowhere in the longer article, abstract or patent.