Sheep’s Wool Toothpaste
with sheep’s wool. The theory behind this is to help repair damaged teeth.
Teeth are very important to the human body. When an adult tooth is damaged, it is not reparable. The same is true for the outer layer of teeth – enamel. This is because enamel can chip and scrape due to acid floods, poor oral hygiene, and dry mouth.
Enamel is the hardest material in our body. Over time, it can wear down. Sometimes, this is because of acids in foods and drinks. Sometimes it is because of a layer of “plaque” that builds up on the teeth, causing acid to slowly damage the enamel.
This can happen to anyone, even people who care for their teeth every day, who experience their enamel breaking. This makes it easier for your teeth to rot. The nerve in the teeth also starts to hurt.
Most toothpaste contains fluoride. Fluoride helps add more minerals to the tooth enamel to make it stronger. However, toothpaste is not renewable, which means when you use it, you can’t make more of it.
The Scientists at King’s College London experimented to see if they could make something like enamel with keratin. Keratin is a protein in our bodies that helps make hair, skin, and fingernails strong and healthy. Keratin is also found in many animals – in horns, hooves, and feathers. And in sheep’s wool. That is why scientists are trying to make toothpaste with sheep’s wool.
Sherif Elsharkawy, a scientist, wants to find a way to restore enamel, which is considered impossible. His idea is that keratin can reassemble the minerals in enamel like crystals.
Scientists discovered that when they took keratin from sheep wool and mixed it with saliva, it took minerals and transformed them into a crystal very much like enamel. When the keratin-based toothpaste was applied to teeth in the laboratory, it patched holes in the enamel. Dr. Elsharkawy said the mixture created “a material as strong as natural enamel.”
Methods used currently are dangerous because they use harmful chemicals. But the new keratin method is super environmentally friendly and is natural, so there is no harm. It even looks natural if you don’t believe me.
There are lots of ways you can get keratin. But those ways are very wasteful, so scientists discovered you can get keratin from your hair. Soon, when you’re brushing your teeth. You would be brushing hair!
Another great thing is that scientists said that in the future , like in 2-3 year,s we will be using this type of toothbrush. Scientists have already made a company to start selling these toothbrushes.