Our medical knowledge is shockingly rudimentary. Why we can’t coax cells to do what they did anyway before is something we really need to understand to pretend to have any kind of medical knowledge. What passes for medicine is nothing more than 19th century++. See this, do that, body will heal. That’s about it. I’m shocked every time I see someone in a wheelchair, how can we have LLMs and hallucinated movies but not understand how a few milligrams of organic matter organizes into nerves? etc etc etc
I am hoping that the absolutely bonkers computing power we are currently wasting on fart videos will be used to simulate matter in the future, here’s to cheering on the AI crash!
We have a pretty good idea how things work during development, it’s tricking those cells into the same process as a fully-formed organism that’s hard. Isolating and distributing the hormones in the right way. I think you’re underselling the complexity and scale of biology. We can’t just put a tiny camera and chemo-sensor inside a neuron and see what’s going on in real time and synthesize up a hundred thousand copies.
I no longer get excited about medical innovation because I know I’ll never be able to afford to benefit from any of it. I’m lucky to have gotten vaccinated as a child while that was still legal for the poors
When I was a teenager it was announced that we would soon be able to stimulate the growth of brand new teeth, right in the mouth. I’m almost 50 and I need some new fuckin’ teeth real soon.
There was a new development in japan less than a year ago. Downside is all your teeth fall out and all regrow
I’m sorry, I thought you said there was a downside.
Tooth fairy isn’t unionized.
The problem is those new teeth were soft with no enamel. This could address that. Either way, no insurance will cover this and it will cost a fortune.
My teeth already have no enamel so I’m game.
No offense, but unless you have some sort of condition like not growing enamel, what have you been doing for your teeth to be that bad at not even 50? Chewing on anvils and flossing with barbed wire?
Bruxism. Why, what’s wrong with you? Sheesh.
If this is legit and dental industry doesn’t try to drown it in a bathtub I’ll be fucking shocked.
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Just ignore all those famous exceptions.
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When you zoom out, the invariant story of capitalism is exactly the opposite. Capitalism contains the seeds of its own destruction.
I bet the catch here is it could accidentally grow anywhere in the body as long as it mimics what our mouth has (saliva). Imagine growing enamel in our tongues or throat.
Doesn’t matter without an anchor point
How many times have I read this headline…
My only question is - when will it be available?
Every time you read it it’s in a mouse or a petri dish.
I wish they would put that on the headline.
According to the article, they used human teeth from cadavers
There’s a big difference between doing something in a lab and mass producing it for millions of people.
Hopefully in the right place.
Behold my new chitinous armour plates!
Don’t give the military ideas like that.
Congrats, you’re now a narwhal
Narwhals, narwhals, swimming in the ocean
Causing a commotion 'cause they are so awesome
How long until the dental restoration industry lobbies it out to be banned, so they can keep selling their photoshop jobs of people smiling with new teeth alongside crowns and implants, all at an inflated price?
It already happens with nano-hydroxyapatite pastes. In Europe you find them at the supermarket for 5 euro, in USA you need a prescription and it’s sold for $$$
Uh no. You can get nHA toothpaste in the USA without a prescription, not sure why you’d think that. It’s just not a popular item here so it’s not sold at brick and mortar stores for the most part, though some smaller stores have it. But I have no problem ordering the stuff online.
Proudly “fluoride free” too, which makes me immediately doubt the veracity of their dental health claims.
Hell yeah. I’m gonna overuse this shit and just have 2 gigantic teeth. One on the top and one on the bottom. No more flossing for me. Fuse those bad boys together. I’ll have the smile of an N64 game character.
Settle down Mitch Hedberg.
What could PAWSIBLY go wrong?
Gotta get that cartoon chin as well.
if you’re gonna get chin work, make sure you have a butt chin (with a smaller, extendable butt implant installed in the cleft)
Currently sitting in an Uber relying on autocorrect to spell for me. I don’t want to belly laugh and make my driver think I’m a crazy person fuk u
Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.
Win win
isnt that why naHp DOES already in a dental setting/implant, but there hasnt been definitive studies where its conclusive with OTC usage, eventhough there are tons of nahp products out there already from 5-10% with extremely questionable concentration and efficacy as manufactors, often from asia, dont tell thier process of making the toothpastes, and the true concentrations(Davids hide thier ingredients and process so be warned, also it tends to be highly abrasive). i have used some, i noticed most of them are just whitening toothpaste(hence the placebo effect), or overly saturated mint.
“Dental enamel has a unique structure, which gives enamel its remarkable properties that protect our teeth throughout life against physical, chemical, and thermal insults,” said lead author Dr. Abshar Hasan
This man doesn’t just disapprove of people mistreating their teeth, he is personally insulted by it. A true dentist.
I could never ever work in that field, it gives me the ick. So I appreciate people who can.
Also enamel is the hardest substance in your body; AFAIK chemically it is indeed interesting and hard (ha) to emulate with other bio-safe materials.
I could never ever work in that field, it gives me the ick. So I appreciate people who can.
It’s almost as bad being married to someone that works in that field.
My wife is a dental hygienist. Some of the horrific shit she sends me would turn your stomach. And then the experiences she’s had working on teeth… Just so so gross. 🤮🤮
My wife is also a dental hygienist, and she has never once sent me any horrific shit…. So I don’t think that’s a trait necessarily tied to the occupation, lol
Lucky. Can I get her number so I can have her talk to my wife? Haha
J/k lmao
Most dentists recommending eating at least 3 poop.
I feel like that should have maybe been a red flag while dating.
But I made this wonderful scarf!
Exploding abscesses… Ugh
Got a photo one time when we were dating… was hoping for tits. Nope tooth root and all. It fell out when she cleaned the years of solidified shit off it.
Granted she was in public health in a poor poor poor community but still. Gross.
Oh, man, that reminds me of one time when I cracked a tooth and couldn’t get in to see the dentist for a while. Cleaning the whatever out of the inside was so gross in smell, taste, and feeeeel, and so incredibly painful.
But will it allow us to create new body armors, is what I want to know.
Simply line yourself with the teeth of your enemies (if they flossed regularly)
Hmmm maybe þe stench of þe rotting teeþ of your enemies who had poor dental hygiene would be a more effective deterrent?
If þey didn’t have poor hygiene, why were þey your enemies?
Hard is usually opposed to strong. It doesn’t take much force to break a tooth—ive done it!
You could just regrow þe armor “within weeks”.
Body Armors… Wait how do you intend on taking the teeth armor off?
Coke and Skittles, duh.
Why would you want to?
1/10 dentists disagree with this guy.
Hands you a bloody 2X4…not anymore!
The researchers used extracted human molars as an ex vivo model, first etching their enamel or dentine surfaces with acid to mimic different stages of tooth erosion. They then applied a single coating of the biomimetic elastin-like recombinamer (ELR) gel and let it dry. Finally, the teeth were immersed in carefully controlled mineralization baths that replicated the ionic environment of saliva.
Keep in mind this hasn’t been shown to actually help teeth in someone’s mouth.
My guess is that they can slowly regrow lost enamel under fillings, slowly build back up later by layer until a filling is no longer needed. What would be amazing is a cure for gum disease.
Just from that, it seems like its a patch job, not capable of regrowing from zero.
To be fair, the research is on regenerating, not regrowing. I wouldn’t expect regrowing lost teeth to be possible any time soon, unless some kind of bio 3D-printing method became available.
i wouldn’t expect that from a gel
I definitely saw lots of ads on AliExpress for gels that would regrow your teeth before their algorithm realized I wasn’t there for that.
Can they make one to generate beaver enamel? I will accept the red color if I can chew through a tree.
beaver have a different composition, its made of iron compounds, i dont think human mouths are adapted to have iron teeth, it might damage your other teeth, because iron is much harder than calcium hydroxyapatite.
there are times i think about getting titanium caps, but my one crown does not feel great and i don’t like how mouthpieces feel
gimmie
Finally, my dream of making teeth anywhere you can imagine could be realized.
FINALLY vaginadentata won’t just be a pipe dream.
🎵 Vagina Dentata, what a wonderful phrase! 🎵
I hate all three of you lol
(take my hate upvotes)
Teeth growing inside tumors is already a thing. Just grow some tumors.
Imagine if teeth were like antlers where they emerge covered in skin that’s ripped off every year
Thanks for the new nightmare. I hate it.
if only you were a crocodile or shark, they replace thier teeth all the time.
those would be abnormal though, the genetics behind the tumor is probably not like a normal chromosomes(partial deletions, extra copies,etc). odontomas, and teratomas produces it but they are abnormal teeth.
