Children's Health Defense
People could someday get a flu vaccine by flossing their teeth, according to a study published last week in Nature Biomedical Engineering. The authors of the study said their findings “establish floss-based vaccination as a simple, needle-free strategy that enhances vaccine delivery and immune activation.”
But critics said the study raises questions about informed consent and how the vaccine dose would be controlled.
The study is the first to show that applying a vaccine to the gum crevice of mice by flossing their teeth with special dental floss activated a strong immune response, Harvinder Gill, Ph.D., a professor in nanomedicine at North Carolina State University and the study’s senior author, told The Defender.
“Nobody would’ve thought that you could do that,” he said…
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