🦠🦷 Podcast Summary: “How to Eliminate Cavities — And Why It Hasn’t Happened Yet”
By The Mad Scientist Supreme
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🔎 Cavities: Not Just About Sugar or Genes
For decades, we believed cavities were caused by:
Eating sweets 🍬
Inheriting weak teeth 🧬
But a Florida dentist discovered that oral bacteria, not genetics, were the real cause — and they run in families even among adopted children. Why? Because babies are born with sterile mouths, then inherit bacteria from their caregivers through affection and kissing. The type of bacteria determines your cavity risk.
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🧪 The Good Bacteria Fix
The dentist found a unique strain of bacteria that:
Killed harmful bacteria like a natural antibiotic
But still produced tooth-destroying acid
So he genetically modified it to remove acid production — effectively creating an anti-cavity probiotic. Sadly, this created a genetically modified organism (GMO), which triggered FDA regulation.
To release it, he needed approval from a board of dentists—who stood to lose business if cavities were eliminated.
❌ The board said no.
đź’¸ The project collapsed. The dentist went bankrupt.
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🚧 Workaround: Radiation Mutation Method
Here’s the Mad Scientist Supreme’s idea for success:
1. Collect strong, competitive tooth bacteria (the kind that kill rivals).
2. Use radiation (e.g. X-rays) to randomly mutate them.
3. 99% will die, but survivors may lose acid production.
4. Use a simple test (phenol red) to find low-acid producers.
5. Breed them up, repeat the radiation process until you get:
âś… A bacteria that kills harmful strains
✅ Doesn’t produce acid
✅ Isn’t genetically modified (so it’s not FDA-regulated)
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🥛 Cure in a Spoonful: Yogurt Delivery
This new bacteria could be placed in:
A probiotic yogurt
A mouth rinse
A lozenge or gum
Just one dose could eliminate acid-causing bacteria in a child’s mouth — offering lifetime protection from cavities.
🧬 The technology is simple.
💡 But you can’t patent it, because it's naturally derived.
📉 That means big companies could easily copy it and undercut you.
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🎯 A Mission for Nonprofits
Because it’s not profitable, only charity-funded labs (like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) are likely to help.
🔧 The Mad Scientist Supreme calls for action:
Dental hygienists and researchers: start hunting for that miracle bacteria.
Write proposals. Seek funding. Change the world.
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🧠💡 "We can stop cavities. It’s cheap, simple, and scientifically sound. But we need the will — not the wallet — to make it happen."
This has been The Mad Scientist Supreme — signing out.
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