I’ve been hearing about re-growing teeth for 20 years. Still nothing. It’s right up there with nuclear fusion.
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Cold nuclear fusion. We were quite successful with the hot kind, uncontrolled.
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And only the fucking rich can afford it. You forgot that part in the title.
Teeth has got to be one of the most disrespected and undervalued parts of your body. Your body's other bones can heal but then it's like "fuck your teeth, I'm not doing shit about them". And then we got health insurance companies who have the gall to not consider teeth an important part of your body that should be covered, got to get it separately and the costs are fundamental.
I mean, you smile with these things and they are key responsible for how you digest food, by chewing on it before swallowing. You can't just swallow whole pieces of food without risk of choking on them at somepoint.
You can pretty much die from bad teeth, like rot and cavities. It is just a matter of when.
A tooth infection can easily spread to your brain and kill you. It's a very short path.
But even if your teeth are just regular bad, that affects how you can eat, and eating is kind of important to living.
Research has also shown a link between dental bacteria and heart disease. Not sure if it’s causation or correlation, but keeping your dental microbiome healthy seems to have benefits throughout the body.
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doesnt need to spread to your brain, just cause sepsis lowering your blood pressure to dangerous levels, or to a major organ and kill you that way.
The best description for teeth in the context of insurance that I've ever heard was "luxury bones".
Gum disease has been linked to heart disease and now there might be a link to dementia due to the bacteria that can enter the bloodstream from the mouth.
Not to mention a tiny fucking hole in them is one of the the most painful experiences in life which only ends if you see a dentist, wait for it to rot, or rip the tooth out yourself.
And that's not even mentioning how fucked the average persons diet is, it's practically guaranteed to happen eventually, without intervention.
Then there is the constant risk of biting on something hard and busting a tooth. I've had it happen 3 fucking times.
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Luxury bones
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Swear articles like this get pushed every few years. Let me know when it's a reality I can get at my local dentist.
It's the same study that's been in process for about a decade. It entered human trials last year with those trials expected to take 5 years. Growing teeth is slow. It's not really being pushed, it's just the same reliable hit for various news sites to break out on slow news days.
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Been hearing this claim for 20 years. Let me know where and when I can sign up for the trails.
It's always 5 years away though, this one is 4! We're making progress.
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Popular mechanics is a terrible source. They post click bait trash like this on a consistent basis.
They've been doing it since before clickbait was even a thing!
No they won't.
This is the same as "humans may live on a mara colony in 10 years!"
No they won't, not even close.
This article is bullshit and so is the entire site, it's all djinn economy, all wishes and fantasy with a clickbait header to make sure you go there to watch the ads to make them money.
Popular Mechanics wrote an article saying exactly this same thing like 10 years ago.
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[...] will administer the treatment to patients between the ages of 2 to 7 who are missing at least four teeth
Yeah, even if this is approved in some form.. growing new teeth for young children is not the same as for adults. Very weird this is the population they're testing on. I'd think they would be testing on people with 10+ missing teeth in their 40s, 50s, 60s+
[...]these treatments are currently focused on patients with congenital tooth deficiency
Again, not for us.
You skipped right past the paragraph before that one describing the adult study that needs to succeed prior to the start of the child study.
Now, scientists will see just how similar, because humans are undergoing a similar trial. Lasting 11 months, this study focuses on 30 males between the ages of 30 and 64—each missing at least one tooth. The drug will be administered intravenously to prove its effectiveness and safety, and luckily, no side effects have been reported in previous animal studies.
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i keep seein this story with zero details on application efficacy.. and now i see a thing where theyre giving the drug intravenously??
how do they know it will grow a tooth in a human being and how does it target a lost tooth if not administered directly?
The teeth grow everywhere, and you just pull out the ones you don't want.
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Rich humans. Us peasants won't be able to.
Nah. Because
Sweet dreams.
The reason toddlers have such cute chubby cheeks… because they’re chock full of teeth :D
Correction: rich humans
Everything is expensive at first, before getting cheaper in the long rub
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Okay but... what kinna teeth we talkin..? Any teeth?
I'd kill for some sharper canines lol
like this?
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Grow them... where?
...toe teeth!
Edit: my 100th comment!
Can they make it stop too? Not taking any chances on this.
Hopefully not, iv always wanted the powers of a rat!
But will I be able to schedule a dentist appointment in four years?
Nothing new in this article, it's just rehashing stuff that's already been announced and talked about since last year.
That's it. Not gonna brush my teeth anymore. Just gonna grow new ones. Maybe sell them. Grow more. Smile big.
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