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Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks
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I've heard of stuff like this for well over a decade. Seems like there's a new article about teeth regrowth every month, either enamel or full teeth. Still waiting on real results.
I fully believe most dentists would rather kill the inventor of whoever lets us regrow teeth for cheap than let it come to the light of day
Change my mind.
Dentists make a lot more money off of major repairs and general maintenance than they do by replacing teeth entirely.
Oral surgeons on the other hand do make money off major repairs to damaged teeth or teeth replacements. I know people often call anyone who works on teeth a dentist, but technically they are different professions.
Huh? If you could regrow a teeth with a simple solution then they would not make money off of anything except pulling them out, and prescribing luxury bone juice.
I sure af would not waste money fixing teeth I could just regrow, especially if it can regrow in place as this article suggests without the awkward missing tooth phase.
It would be like rotors on cars. Nobody resurfaces them anymore - they just replace because replacing has become so cheap that there is no point.
But you do replace your brake pads before the wear out completely instead of just letting them grind your rotors, right?
Most dentist visits are like oil changes and vehicle checks to make sure things aren't going to fail catastrophically.
You would be surprised how many people already don't maintain their teeth and they aren't replaceable yet for non ferrets.
The teeth regrowth thing was only two years ago.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2014.00036/full
It's been in the works for over ten years. Here is a paper on research into it from 2014.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3000521/
Here's another one from 2010.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761608000070#cesec60
And another from 2008.
At this point it's a race between teeth, fusion and GTA 6. Place your bets, people.
I bet GTA 6, if only because those investors are going to be more bloodthirsty about it coming out eventually.
Teeth and fusion need approval to be safe from the...government...
I withdraw my bet.
GTA6 is far more achievable. Like it doesn't even matter what they release, that would qualify. To get this out of the lab, it would have to actually work.
And fusion really isn't happening for decades.
thats how research works unfortunately
Absolutely, which was my point. That the tooth thing wasn't "only two years ago" it's actually been in the research and development process for probably over 15 years at this point, with a long way to go.
It's a subject that targets people's deep-seated insecurities. Everybody wants a tooth that can regenerate when they first discover a cavity for themselves.
With enamel regrowing constantly after the smallest scratch, cavities cannot get to where they form.
This hokum story is promising no more cavities ever.
It's the new new battery tech!
We have had massive improvements in batteries so that bodes well!
But batteries consistently improve year on year, we just keep increasing the demand of our devices in lockstep because 10% more powerful! markets much better than 10% more battery life.
Battery tech is the new fusion, just 10 years away!