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Originally Posted by Fishteacher73
The big key here would be developing a bacteria that the body would not attack.
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Yes and no- I was thinking that the bodies natural defenses would be valuable, they would be one more check against the growth of the bacteria. It's playing with fire, I wasn't looking for a long term symbiont, but rather a short term fix (but a much more complete fix then we currently have). Longer term symbiotic behavior, while cool, would be incredibly difficult to engineer.
On that note, dentists recently dvloped a new mouth flora that doesn't produce tooth decaying by products. I can't find the link right now, I ran accross it while looking for information for the CAD idea. Anyway, the new flora permenently replaces the older, traditional mouth bacteria, and you no longer have to wrory about tooth decay
