2024-03-26 06:10:00
Yasmina Kattou // Credits: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / R3F / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY VIA AFP 7:10 a.m., March 26, 2024
A dental crown acting as a blood sugar sensor. Saliva being easy to collect, it might replace blood tests. French researchers from the Institute of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases are developing a connected tooth to measure blood sugar levels in diabetic patients.
It’s a world first and it’s French. A novelty that might revolutionize the lives of the 3.5 million diabetics in France! Saliva being easy to collect, it might replace blood tests. French researchers from the Institute of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases are developing a connected tooth to measure blood sugar levels in diabetic subjects. The object takes the form of a dental crown implanted in the back of the mouth, so small that it would not cause any discomfort. Connected via Bluetooth to the phone, this connected tooth will allow blood sugar levels to be monitored in real time.
If it is possible to detect blood sugar in saliva, it is because Professor Vincent Blasco-Baque and his team of researchers at Toulouse University Hospital have identified particular modifications of this secretion. “In the saliva, we detected a biomarker, a molecule that will provide us with information. The information that we were able to see in the saliva was that we might have specific molecules of the modification blood sugar,” he explains to Europe 1.
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Patients would therefore no longer have to draw their blood, some of them, several times a day. Researchers are also in the process of identifying other markers that might help detect cardiovascular diseases in saliva. The first connected tooth prototype might be developed as early as next year.
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