“It appears the drug may be too effective. The test patients have had to start chewing on things to keep their teeth from growing through their own skull.”
“Bob, we’re still testing it on mice…”
Trials are set to include only adult males at first, then children at later rounds. That’s not ideal.
I’m super pumped about the prospect of regrowing teeth though!
Last I heard about this drug, it was focused on people who were missing teeth from birth / due to congenital defects, may work still but not yet applicable to regrowing teeth unfortunately.
A step closer on my childhood dream of becoming a street shark!
Your dream sounds Jawsome!
Captain shark tutu tutu tutu🎶~
How will I threaten my child to brush their teeth now?
Well now you can pull one out whenever it starts getting yellow and regrow it. It won’t take many for him to start brushing.
Peer pressure should fix this shortly.
This is awesome!
Ok but how will they ensure the right teeth get regrown? Imagine waking up to find that your impacted wisdom teeth that you had removed a decade ago had come back
Dentists that specialize in wisdom tooth extraction: 🤑🤑🤑
I have been looking forward to this for 2 decades.
Every dentist I’ve ever been to has told me that they didn’t know when research would be progressing on actual regrowth.
Finally, we’re in the maybe soon stage.
Hope the trials go well.
as early as 2030
You might still have another decade waiting.
5 and a half years beat 20, and I am patient. And hopefully a patient.
I’m right there with you. After several root canals and a couple of extractions, all of that before 40… I could use some new chompers.
Right now, it’s only a matter of time until I need man-made mouth bones, this would be vastly preferable.
My whole family is rife with robot chompers, I am ready to cultivate some dentin.
May the winds of fortune be with us and behind the sails of dental innovation.
May your cultivated dentin be strong and plentiful.
As a side note, I used to have really bad oral hygiene, which is what led me to where I am now. I have learned my lessons, and done what I can to appease the Dental Care professionals… So far it seems to be working… But I don’t have the many thousands of dollars to burn on getting crowns/implants/whatever I need to complete the illusion of me having all my mouth bones.
So I swear, if I get a new set, they will be cared for with the utmost of diligence.
Electric toothbrushes changed my life, no joke.
Until I got an electric toothbrush, I could brush three times a day and floss and still develop new cavities.
Since getting my first electric toothbrush years ago, I have developed almost zero new cavities.
So I guess I’m just terrible at brushing, but boy are electric toothbrushes worth it.
I got one and I didn’t love it. Do you have a recommendation?
Same here, hell, I’d volunteer for early access testing. My teeth suck.
I wrote this to someone else, but after brushing and flossing three times a day or more for years with zero progress in avoiding new cavities every few months, I finally tried an electric toothbrush at the behest of a dentist I trusted and I have had basically no cavities and no root canals or major work done since switching to the electric toothbrush years ago now
It was like night and day how rapidly and comprehensively my oral health improved after beginning to use the electric toothbrush.
And I’ve used a bunch of different ones at this point, the brand doesn’t matter, get whatever one is on sale for 50 bucks with some extra brush heads.
It’s the extra revolutions, it’s literally like 10 extra brushes for every second you’re brushing your teeth.
Teeth (2007) : “soon…”
This shit better be affordable and covered by health insurance.
It will be.
In civilised societies
