cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/832489
Been hearing this claim for 20 years. Let me know where and when I can sign up for the trails.
Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
murmelade@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s always 5 years away though, this one is 4! We’re making progress.
epik_kiwi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
24 years is way worse than 5
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It was 5 years away last year and now this year it’s 4 years away! Why do they keep changing the number !!1!
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not only does it need to become possible, it needs to become more effective than other treatments like crowns and implants. I think it’s going to be a long time, and even then will only be applicable in limited cases for a long time, and will be really expensive.
radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
Swear articles like this get pushed every few years. Let me know when it’s a reality I can get at my local dentist.
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s the same study that’s been in process for about a decade. It entered human trials last year with those trials expected to take 5 years. Growing teeth is slow. It’s not really being pushed, it’s just the same reliable hit for various news sites to break out on slow news days.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
If you only care about technology that’s commercially available, why are you on the technology community?
radiouser@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
Just to annoy you, is it working? I hope so.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe they care about other technologies that aren’t constantly just a couple years away?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I get the best biomedical research news from Popular Mechanics.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve been hearing about re-growing teeth for 20 years. Still nothing. It’s right up there with nuclear fusion.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cold nuclear fusion. We were quite successful with the hot kind, uncontrolled.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, we can make fusion happen, but it’s not exactly useful outside of turning things into not things anymore.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not just cold fusion. We are still working on creating hot fusion reactions that are controlled. That honestly makes sense. It’s kinda weird that we were able to theorize the uncontrolled reaction of fission, and then used that to create a mostly stable controlled fission reactor.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
… will administer the treatment to patients between the ages of 2 to 7 who are missing at least four teeth
Yeah, even if this is approved in some form.. growing new teeth for young children is not the same as for adults. Very weird this is the population they’re testing on. I’d think they would be testing on people with 10+ missing teeth in their 40s, 50s, 60s+
Sumocat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You skipped right past the paragraph before that one describing the adult study that needs to succeed prior to the start of the child study.
Now, scientists will see just how similar, because humans are undergoing a similar trial. Lasting 11 months, this study focuses on 30 males between the ages of 30 and 64—each missing at least one tooth. The drug will be administered intravenously to prove its effectiveness and safety, and luckily, no side effects have been reported in previous animal studies.
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For now
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 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?
AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
The teeth grow everywhere, and you just pull out the ones you don't want.
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I’m reminded of the phrase vagina dentata
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 2 weeks ago
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.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Popular mechanics is a terrible source. They post click bait trash like this on a consistent basis.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They’ve been doing it since before clickbait was even a thing!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
No they won’t.
This is the same as “humans may live on a mara colony in 10 years!”
No they won’t, not even close.
This article is bullshit and so is the entire site, it’s all djinn economy, all wishes and fantasy
tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
inb4 teeth growing in the most wrong and least expected places
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
A new, horrible torture method just dropped.
wabafee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For some reason just thought of teeth in the pussy. Anyway just sharing here cause sharing is caring.
mcv@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
This is my main concern. I will believe they can regrow lost teeth, but can they regrow them in the correct shape and location? Teeth can take some weird shapes. We’ve got millions of years of evolution tweaking exactly where and how they grow, and it still goes wrong sometimes. I suspect messing with that process can lead to Cronenbergian results.
Hupf@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
They call her the iron maiden
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Popular Mechanics wrote an article saying exactly this same thing like 10 years ago.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Did they? I can’t find it.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It may have been Popular Science, the other side of the same rag coin.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If this were to become commercially viable, dentists would move heaven and earth to stop it. Imagine killing 80% of a field with a simple commonplace product.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Doubt it. This is not the type of treatment that is just over the counter. Tooth regrowth would have to be administered and monitored by somebody like an orthodontist. More likely some will just become specialized in it.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
People who don’t have any teeth don’t need a dentist, regrown teeth will still get painful cavities or other damage and need fillings or crowns, regrown teeth will probably come in exactly as crooked as your originals and require braces, there’s plenty of room for dentists in a world without permanent tooth loss
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are you kidding? Most dentists would love that treatment. You get to improve your patients’ dental health, you give them a smile they can be proud of, and you would be the ones administering the treatment.
This will more likely be an upcharge service for cavity fillings and to replace implants and shit.
mcv@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Why? More teeth to clean, fill, check and care for.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Whatever dude, you think this will be free?
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Who do you think will be doing this treatment?
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
why are you assuming it would require a physician
fluxx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Based on how AI might actually replace a bunch of professions, and nobody fighting tooth and nail about it - I don’t think so.
DemandtheOxfordComma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
That’s it. Not gonna brush my teeth anymore. Just gonna grow new ones. Maybe sell them. Grow more. Smile big.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Correction: rich humans
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Okay but… what kinna teeth we talkin…? Any teeth?
I’d kill for some sharper canines lol
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
That’s a long time to grow a tooth. Can they do anything to speed that up? I’d like a new set of chompers by next week.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Nothing new in this article, it’s just rehashing stuff that’s already been announced and talked about since last year.
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Rich humans. Us peasants won’t be able to.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
Can they make it stop too? Not taking any chances on this.
deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
My mom lied to me
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Not a dentist, but isnt the root cause of a lot of our dental problems, the loss of gums and the inability of our stupid gums to heal and grow back?
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
But will I be able to schedule a dentist appointment in four years?
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bruh I’m gonna grow so many teeth. I wonder if we’ll be able to get crocodile teeth.
Like can I get just one crocodile tooth that hangs over my lip?
BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Grow them… where?
Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I will surrogate any of your teeth for a small fee.
58008@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Rich humans*
yannic@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I was psyched until I learned it would be a biologic. Those are so bloody expensive and there isn’t enough research ruling out potential interactions between multiple biologics to convince my doc to freely prescribe me a second one.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I they’re gonna take 4 years to grow, I’ll just stick with fillings.
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
Teeth has got to be one of the most disrespected and undervalued parts of your body. Your body's other bones can heal but then it's like "fuck your teeth, I'm not doing shit about them". And then we got health insurance companies who have the gall to not consider teeth an important part of your body that should be covered, got to get it separately and the costs are fundamental.
I mean, you smile with these things and they are key responsible for how you digest food, by chewing on it before swallowing. You can't just swallow whole pieces of food without risk of choking on them at somepoint.
You can pretty much die from bad teeth, like rot and cavities. It is just a matter of when.
frongt@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
A tooth infection can easily spread to your brain and kill you. It’s a very short path.
But even if your teeth are just regular bad, that affects how you can eat, and eating is kind of important to living.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Research has also shown a link between dental bacteria and heart disease. Not sure if it’s causation or correlation, but keeping your dental microbiome healthy seems to have benefits throughout the body.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
doesnt need to spread to your brain, just cause sepsis lowering your blood pressure to dangerous levels, or to a major organ and kill you that way.
db2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The best description for teeth in the context of insurance that I’ve ever heard was “luxury bones”.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gum disease has been linked to heart disease and now there might be a link to dementia due to the bacteria that can enter the bloodstream from the mouth.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Luxury bones
confuser@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Just gonna drop this here for anyone that wants to know about the best way to take care of teeth.
slrpnk.net/comment/18504970
aesthelete@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, but you’re leaving out how bad a problem gum disease is.
Wooki@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Eyes and skin are not far off of it want for the fact they were replied soon so much. (Re WHS protective goggles , sunscreen)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
mammals pretty much have the short end of the stick as far as teeth goes, we cant replace it often like reptiles can.
Arctic_monkey@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
I’m not a fan of insurance companies, but the dental/medical insurance split makes sense. Insurance is fundamentally a risk hedging game. It matters what the risks are. Most medical conditions will only happen to a small percentage of people, so we can all put money into a pool and pay out to the unlucky people who, for example, get cancer. Almost everyone needs some dental work eventually, everyone’s teeth wear down. Dental insurance is more like a savings plan than a gamble on rare outcomes. It doesn’t make sense to pool those risks together.