When do we get teeth that aren’t made of a substance that our food literally dissolves? Seems like a major design flaw.
Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to science@mander.xyz
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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Think that speaks more to the quality of the food.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The quality of the food only matters because our bodies can’t handle it. If we could improve our teeth (and other body parts) to be more resilient and adapted to available food resources then it wouldn’t be considered poor quality anymore.
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah what unprocessed food that people regularly eat causes enough damage to dissolve teeth a noticable amount in one lifetime?
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s not really the food dissolving the teeth.
Bactria feed food remnants and product bacteria, mostly sugars, and product acid that dissolves tooth enamel.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Acidic food can dissolve your teeth. I’m aware of the involvement of bacteria but I didn’t want to go into too much detail for this one-liner. The point is our teeth are very poorly designed to stay intact in the face of the dietary environment they are used for.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You liked Wisdom Teeth, have you tried Wisdom Teeth 2?
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Are they ever actually going to deliver this or is this some long running joke? I’ve seen this kind of announcements for decades and yet nothing ever came out of it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 week ago
The work being done on it in Japan at the University of Kyoto claims they would have an actual product by 2030.
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I hope they actual deliver. Dental care is still the equivalent of wooden pegs.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Statements like this make me question why I even bother to subscribe to this forum.
Every post here is fully of pop pseudo-science, double-digit sample sizes, correlation/causation fallacies, double-digit sample sizes, confirmation biases, conflicts of interests, fucking double-digit sample sizes, and every other fallacy, bias, and problem you could think of. Where’s the real science with actual provable conclusions, perfectly peer-reviewed, and has an appropriately large sample size?!
Zoot@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Sounds like something to take up with the mods of the community, and should they disagree, a new community made.
I completely agree with you, it gets old seeing pop science. Should really be a rule that bans these types of posts.
heeler_lover@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I’m here with ya Zoot! Shall we explore medical science with a foot in truth and physical science!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Huntington’s disease cured in 2025. FDA throws out drug by March 2026.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Well that is a great example
The. BBC headline: CURED! CURED, I TELL YA!
Meanwhile in the article: its progression hasbeen slowed by 75%
Yeah, that is awesome still, but that is not cured. This sort of clickbait headlines are a prime example of the problem in /science and in science in general.
Everything needs to be a success, a revolution, something Mike dropping. Nobody wants gradual improvement anymore