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This is for growing in teeth that never properly grew in the first place for genetic reasons. It's not a cure for your cavities. Don't get your hopes up!
by darkerside 2y ago
This is for growing in teeth that never properly grew in the first place for genetic reasons. It's not a cure for your cavities. Don't get your hopes up!
- Brian_K_White 2y ago"The team believes that in the future it may be possible to grow teeth not only in people with congenital conditions, but also in those who have lost teeth due to cavities or injuries."
- jupp0r 2y agoThe article states "The team believes that in the future it may be possible to grow teeth not only in people with congenital conditions, but also in those who have lost teeth due to cavities or injuries."
- al_borland 2y agoI first read about scientists making progress on regrowing teeth about 20 years ago. At the time, I thought this would be a future I saw and crowns would not be something I’d have to deal with. 20 years later, I no longer expect this to be something I experience in my lifetime.
- darkerside 2y agoThe parallels to cold fusion are hilarious! Maybe just to me
- croes 2y agoBelieves... it may be possible That isn't really strong confidence.
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- ThinkBeat 2y agosurely if you can regrow an entire tooth that never existed. You can make teeth heal? Or rip it out and grow a new one?
- XorNot 2y agoIt needs the tooth nucleation point to exist at the moment: it's where the truth starts growing from during development.
- jwells89 2y agoAs a layman it seems like the natural follow-up is to figure out how to grow tooth buds from stem cells and implant them, which in theory would allow people to grow whole new sets of teeth.
- animex 2y agoOh Wow, I actually still have a baby tooth @ 50+ years old because an adult tooth never grew behind it. My dentist has been warning me that eventually I'll need to bridge/implant it but I wonder if I would be a candidate for this treatment. Depending on the cost too.
- jwells89 2y agoI’m curious about this too, also having an adult tooth that never developed.
- Ueland 2y agoStrangely enough, still possible. My dad was in this sixties when he got his wisdom teeth.
- smeej 2y agoMy brother is in a similar situation, though younger, and it's especially weird in our family because my dad grew a full extra tooth near the front for no apparent reason, and his brother regrew all four wisdom teeth after having them extracted, so you'd think my brother would err on the side of too many teeth, not too few! (We're a bit screwy in general, though. My dad has an extra vertebra, besides the extra tooth, and I managed not to get enough vertebrae, but I have 1.5 extra ribs.)