Comment on Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough

muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Step one is to let it relax so you’re dealing with a calm system instead.

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • krysel@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    oh my

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• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We have different ideas to put the teeth inside the mouth. We could transplant the young tooth cells at the location of the missing tooth and let them grow inside mouth. Alternatively, we could create the whole tooth in the lab before placing it in the patient’s mouth.

  I assume option 1 at least would lead to the nerve connections naturally growing as the tooth does. Regardless, this still seems in the super early lab-proof-of-concept stage so I guess the ultimate answer is we don’t know yet.

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hmm, option 2 seems like root canal treatment but instead there is a new tooth. However if they can predict the direction where the tooth will grow, option 1 seems promising.

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