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.

The best description for teeth in the context of insurance that I've ever heard was "luxury bones".

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.

Not to mention a tiny fucking hole in them is one of the the most painful experiences in life which only ends if you see a dentist, wait for it to rot, or rip the tooth out yourself.

And that's not even mentioning how fucked the average persons diet is, it's practically guaranteed to happen eventually, without intervention.

Luxury bones

Just gonna drop this here for anyone that wants to know about the best way to take care of teeth.

https://slrpnk.net/comment/18504970

You can pretty much die from bad teeth, like rot and cavities. It is just a matter of when.

Yes, but you're leaving out how bad a problem gum disease is.

Eyes and skin are not far off if it want for the fact they were replied soon so much. (Re WHS protective goggles , sunscreen)

mammals pretty much have the short end of the stick as far as teeth and bones goes, we cant replace it often like reptiles can.

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.

It's always 5 years away though, this one is 4! We're making progress.

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.

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.

If you only care about technology that's commercially available, why are you on the technology community?

I get the best biomedical research news from Popular Mechanics.

Cold nuclear fusion. We were quite successful with the hot kind, uncontrolled.

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.

For now

The teeth grow everywhere, and you just pull out the ones you don't want.

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.

They've been doing it since before clickbait was even a thing!

A new, horrible torture method just dropped.

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.

They call her the iron maiden

Did they? I can't find it.

Everything is expensive at first, before getting cheaper in the long rub

like this?

Mine are so sharp the dentist asked if I wanted them dulled a bit. I of course told him to leave em sharp!

Shark mouth

I wana be growing and firing teeth out of my jawbone like bullets and become the worlds most horifying superhero/villain. haven't decided which yet

The reason toddlers have such cute chubby cheeks… because they’re chock full of teeth :D

I’ve had gum grafts, and they’ve had no difficulty healing and growing back. I’ve also had extra teeth removed and the gums have had no difficulty filling in the gaps. So if all else fails, pull the old tooth, plant the new seed tooth, let the gum heal and then rupture as the new tooth grows out. Should have a nice healthy gum edge again. Although teething as an adult sounds… uncomfortable.

gum disease, and CARIES, some people are more susceptible to caries than others. anyone with dry mouth will have increased amount of plaque, cavaties. my old dentist said people on chemo have the worst dental health, because of they dry mouth from chemo. other people, such as prognathism,.

Gum disease could lead to tooth loss but the primary way people lose them is through infections due to cavities. The infection weakens the tooth and the jawbone it's rooted in as well as can lead to loss of the root nerve. At a certain point the tooth is too loose or weak and has to be removed to prevent further infection and/or to treat the existing infection.

I've been loosely following this company's progress for a bit. It doesn't say so in this article, but I think I recall reading that the drug also promotes gum regrowth at the same time.

Hopefully not, iv always wanted the powers of a rat!

I want some on my knuckles so I can punch and chew at the same time.

I came here to chew bubble gum and punch Nazis, and I can do both those things with my hands.

Reverse tooth fairy

Apparently this treatment seems to help gums too, so I suspect it might also help you. But I don't see that they've studied that part yet.

How?

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.

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

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.

Why? More teeth to clean, fill, check and care for.

Based on how AI might actually replace a bunch of professions, and nobody fighting tooth and nail about it - I don't think so.

Whatever dude, you think this will be free?