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.
I can probably hold out but it’s going to be close .
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
Mark my words this is going to be used decoratively like a tattoo or a piercing
Two words, penile implant.
Vagina dentata
Waiting for someone to aiprompt what that would look like!
- 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.
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?
It’s likely an injection into the jaw. We already have the pathways to grow new teeth, and where. It’s what kicks out milk teeth. It’s likely a case of triggering it.
Worst case, your old teeth fall out.
In the previous comment, the one I replied to, it says the drug is administered intravenously. I thought, like you did, it would be some sort of gel or cream or injection into an old tooth socket or something like that. However, it seems that the drug is administered intravenously and works systemically.
I find this all very fascinating
Yeah, so what if you’re like me and you’ve had a tooth pulled and replaced with an implant? There’s a titanium drywall anchor embedded in my skull with a fake tooth bolted to it. What happens if I take this drug? Does it push the bone graft out?
Yeah, I’m in the same boat with a couple of teeth. I really wanna know what would happen in that case, lol.
Perhaps they would have to remove any dental implants before proceeding with the therapy.
“oh look, a horn, instructions didn’t say anything about a horn, fuck, what to do now”
Prepare for o harvest the horn!
If you accidentaly mix up your antibiotics ear drips with your tooth growing medicide, are you going to get ear teeth?
Yes, helping people is fine and all but I think we can all agree the real question is can we grow extra teeth and where?
Excellent! More teeth for the teeth cup.
