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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

i keep seein this story with zero details on application efficacy.. and now i see a thing where theyre giving the drug intravenously??

how do they know it will grow a tooth in a human being and how does it target a lost tooth if not administered directly?

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AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The teeth grow everywhere, and you just pull out the ones you don't want.

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- Pat_Riot@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m reminded of the phrase vagina dentata
  
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  - Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s a wonderful phrase
    
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    Firoaren@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It ain’t no passin’ craze
    
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- originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  reminds me of a movie
  
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EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve seen one of these talked about before, and the mechanism seemed to be in that one that there’s a gene in our DNA that triggers us to grow new teeth (that’s how we replace our baby teeth with adult teeth), but that that gene turns off after we grow in our set of adult teeth. It’s apparently the same gene that allows sharks to grow new teeth. What the drug does is it turns that gene back on, allowing us to grow new teeth to replace lost ones.

This might not be the same study though, as I’ve also seen one previously years ago that was about a drug that turned on a gene in our teeth to allow them to repair the enamel in them and fill in cavities by putting biodegradable gauze soaked in the drug inside a cavity and letting the tooth do the rest.

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