Did you ever notice how some lesions in your mouth tend to heal faster and tend to not scar as much as other cuts on your skin?
In 2008, Dutch Researchers discovered that histatins (proteins found in salvia) actually assist with the healing of wounds. The studies were conducted by University of Amsterdam and were lead by head Researcher, Menno Oudhoff.
This is very exciting news especially for people who experience traumatic injuries, burns and even people who suffer from diabetes because histatins are easier to manufacture in the lab therefore can be mass produced. We hope that sometime in the future we will see products such as bandages that use histatins to help the healing process.
For more information on the study please review The FASEB Journal article, ‘Histatins are the major wound-closure stimulating factors in human saliva as identified in a cell culture assay.’