Very Important Invention: Hot Pizza And Coffee Will No Longer Burn Your Mouth
Piping Hot Pizza Pain WikimediaUniversity of Texas at Austin researchers have designed an oral strip that relieves burns from hot foods and liquids. Burn yourself on your favorite hot refreshments no longer! University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed an oral strip that immediately numbs the pain from that venti pumpkin spice latté you couldn't wait to try and which scalded you for your impatience. Perhaps now you'll actually be able to taste the nutmeg. Before this breakthrough, the only way to avoid burning your face on delicious food was to wait for it to cool down. And what year is this, again? Users can apply the strips directly to the burn for a dose of benzocaine and therapeutic polymers. It essentially acts the same as a breath strip, sticking to your mouth and dissolving in your saliva. The research will be presented at the 2012 American Association of...