Hacker News with Generative AI: Dental Health

FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts (sciencenews.org)
A decades-old dental health treatment may soon vanish in the United States. Access to fluoride supplements, prescribed to prevent cavities in children without access to fluoridated water, is now under threat from a controversial move by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
New reviews for Lumina Probiotic, the genetically engineered toothpaste (sfstandard.com)
In January of last year, a handful of tech elites flew to Honduras to try a single-use toothpaste that wasn’t available in the U.S. Shelling out up to $20,000 for a dose, they hoped the genetically engineered dental rinse might permanently ward off cavities.
Effect of Vitamin C on S. mutans from patients with dental caries (2020) (biomedcentral.com)
World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September (newatlas.com)
Tests find high levels of PFAS in one-third of dental floss brands (ehn.org)
Reasons not to take Lumina's anticavity probiotic (trevorklee.substack.com)