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Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks (newatlas.com)
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[–] 58 points 1 year ago (23 children)

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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's the new new battery tech!

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The teeth regrowth thing was only two years ago.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    At this point it's a race between teeth, fusion and GTA 6. Place your bets, people.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    implants are a niche industry though, not related to general dentistry, its considered cosmetic. so its very EXPENSIVE for implants, per tooth can be thousands(3-6k or more) they would have to go toa cosmetic dentist if they want "replacement teeth, aka implants". I only ever went to an oral surgeon for bottom wisdom tooth extraction.

    plus there is one that is orifacial, which works on the jaw/ teeth, if you have a severe prognathism or overbite/underbit they can consider surgery combined with some dental procedures beforehand. i have prognathism but i never got surgery for it, wish i did when i was younger.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have had four teeth replaced with the oral surgeon doing the screw and the dentist did the crowns. Yes it is expensive, but reasonably common, and partially covered by dental insurance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    luckily i had root canals and dont need extractions than implants, if you try to get implants on the "cheap" like less than a few thousands you wont get results, i had a family member get1 tooth for 6k, while my parents getting theres for 2-3k, not very good results, plus advertising as using new "tech"

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