• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Lots of hopium in the article. The base treatment seems to be for 2-7 years old missing teeths.

    I mean you can’t just inject some stuff and have a random tooth grow out.

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    One question. How much? Unless its very very affordable i.e. cheaper than implants then it’s just another dental resource I can’t afford. In the US insurance companies will label this as cosmetic and thus only for the wealthy

    Awesome science though, just hope some of the less fortunate can actually afford it

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    • While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness.
    • Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials—the first patients will be receiving the drug intravenously in September of this year.
    • If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of toothlessness sometime around 2030.
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      Ok, so how does it work? Does it regrow a single tooth if it’s missing, or do you have to pull them all out, and it regrows the whole set?

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    If you accidentaly mix up your antibiotics ear drips with your tooth growing medicide, are you going to get ear teeth?