There are no details to give, there never was a successful caries vaccine it’s just always been stuck at being worked on.
Big dental isn’t blocking it we just don’t have a good enough model and yes there isn’t a sufficient financial incentive to develop it really either.
Caries isn’t a big problem these days, it’s not then major cause of tooth problems as people grow older, dental hygiene and more importantly fluoride in water pretty much solved it for those population that were affected.
There is no financial reason to block a caries vaccine as it’s not going to have any impact on the industry, cosmetic and corrective procedures would still be just as in demand and gum disease is by far a bigger factor for tooth loss in adult patients than caries.
Not to mention that quite a lot of the “vaccines” weren’t traditional vaccines but rather replacement therapies where lacto acid producing bacteria would be replaced with strains that cannot produce it but can outcompete the lactobacillus flora in your mouth, these treatments are let’s say problematic since we have had little to no experience in flora replacement therapies and can’t predict or model the outcomes well.
Dr. Jeffrey D. Hillman invented it in the 1970s-1980s at Harvard under NIH grants (https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R01-DE004529-10). Swab inoculation and you're done. It worked perfectly in animals and humans.
In the 1990s, he founded Oragenics, to try to commercialize it. The FDA gave them the runaround for about 20 years before they finally mysteriously gave up. In 2016, he got a 17-year patent, so I guess it'll be shelved until 2033 at least.
There's something fundamentally wrong with this picture. Why should a simple application of genetic engineering from the 1980s take 50+ years to make it to market? It's either a complete scam or a conspiracy.
Big dental isn’t blocking it we just don’t have a good enough model and yes there isn’t a sufficient financial incentive to develop it really either.
Caries isn’t a big problem these days, it’s not then major cause of tooth problems as people grow older, dental hygiene and more importantly fluoride in water pretty much solved it for those population that were affected.
There is no financial reason to block a caries vaccine as it’s not going to have any impact on the industry, cosmetic and corrective procedures would still be just as in demand and gum disease is by far a bigger factor for tooth loss in adult patients than caries.
Not to mention that quite a lot of the “vaccines” weren’t traditional vaccines but rather replacement therapies where lacto acid producing bacteria would be replaced with strains that cannot produce it but can outcompete the lactobacillus flora in your mouth, these treatments are let’s say problematic since we have had little to no experience in flora replacement therapies and can’t predict or model the outcomes well.