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May 1st, 2018

MEET THE WOMAN BEHIND THE NANOTECHNOLOGY THAT REVOLUTIONIZED DENTAL CARE

Abstract: She wasn't aiming to make history. But in the late 1990s, when Sumita Mitra, a chemist at 3M, began to use nanotechnology to improve dental fillings, that's exactly what happened. Now found in dental offices'and virtually every mouth'her fillings are one of those life-changing innovations we take for granted.

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