article fILE – Dental floss (Photo by: Universal Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) If you have a fear of needles, you may be in luck. A recent study, which administered vaccines via dental floss, is showing early promise, according to researchers in North Carolina. No more jabs? The backstory: Earlier studies have shown the mouth is an effective place …
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Flu shot season is around the corner, and while injections remain the most common form of vaccination, scientists are working hard to find other ways to deliver inoculations that don’t involve shoving a needle into your flesh. And in a new study, researchers think they might have found another novel approach: dental floss. In the new work, a team of …
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A fear of needles is a common reason for avoiding vaccines, even among many adults. Now researchers have come up with a rather clever alternative: dental floss. Led by a team from Texas Tech University, the researchers first identified an often overlooked surface in the mouth as an entry point for vaccines: the junctional epithelium (JE), which sits where the …
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