Study ascertains how teeth sense the cold – Bite magazine

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For people with tooth decay, drinking a cold beverage can be agony. Now an international team of scientists have figured out how teeth sense the cold and pinpointed the molecular and cellular players involvedand published their findings in published in Science Advances.
Teeth decay when films of bacteria and acid eat away at the enamel. As enamel erodes, pits called cavities form. Roughly a third of the world’s population have untreated cavities in permanent teeth, which can…

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