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You can get it here, actually. https://probiorahealth.com/probioraplus/

The downside is that they weren't allowed to sell the genetically modified version, they had to derive it from natural bacteria and formulate it to be a daily supplement instead of a permanent replacement.

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That's amazing, I was really curious about exactly this. I remember reading an article in Wired many years ago (maybe around 1998?) that suggested that researchers had developed a bacteria that would kill the bacteria that create lactic acid and would convert the sugar to something else not harmful to our teeth. The article suggested that tooth decay would be a thing of the past by now. I was just wondering about what ever happened to that.

Do the tablets work? Seems like they'd be a bigger deal.

> they had to derive it from natural bacteria and formulate it to be a daily supplement instead of a permanent replacement.

There couldn't possibly be any perverse financial incentive to make you keep buying their product repeatedly instead of only once.

They were facing a full FDA trial for the whole thing. Certainly a perverse incentive not to fully develop the product :)

Considering how poor the sales of the tablet have been, I'm sure they'd rather be charging $20,000 per treatment. They actually sold the entire tablet business for $2m which is pretty abysmal compared to the value of 'curing tooth decay forever'

Found something about the original.

http://www.research.ufl.edu/publications/explore/v09n2/featu...

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/health/bacteria-enlist...

I find it odd that I can't find any sort of videos about that product. Usually people review stuff like this on youtube.

I've used it. I don't see a tremendous difference but it's definitely noticeable.

What difference do you see? Fewer cavities, or the site suggests a whitening and fresh breath effect.

Yep that's about it. I can't really tell the difference beyond a little better breath and a little less plaque.

You used it, but not anymore? Why did you stop?

Difference isn't really that tremendous. Better breath, less plaque, but really marginal.

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