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As creepy as the tooth child was, I was highly disappointed in the Candle Cove adaptation, although I’m not sure how you could ever do it justice.
Wonder if we could somehow plan for them to grow in straight?
That’s what I had planned the first time they grew in but it didn’t work
I saw something recently that said eating harder foods that requiring a lot of chewing as a kid gives your teeth a much better chance of growing in straight, because it strengthens all the stuff that holds them in place. If kids are growing up eating softer foods, everything is weak and things grow all wonky.
Lisa needs braces
So long, dental plan!
DENNAL PLAN
Lisa needs braces-
And it will cost me a kidney !
Only if you’re American and can pay 15k, the rest of us will wait 5 years… Have our appointment cancelled wait 4 more and by the time we’re assessed they will tell us we waited to long and there is nothing they can do for us.
It took them 6 years to take my gallbladder out even with it causing horrid pain… I mean covid did happen in the middle but still diagnosed 2016 and surgery is 2021 is kind of fucked by any standards.
As far as I know, no national health systems cover cosmetic dental work.
Certainly both in the UK and in Portugal I always had to pay for it from my own pocket.
Mind you, neither of those countries has anywhere near US prices even for private healthcare.
And will probably give you cancer.
Tooth cancer?
NEW CANCER DROPPED
NEW CANCER DROPPED
So…. Anybody else feel this is……
I dunno… weird?
Yeah, I’d like to know if they can stop the treatment again. Wouldn’t want to have teeth everywhere.
So, it sounds like the drug basically prevents certain things that normally halt tooth growth- which would be problematic as we’re not constantly loosing teeth.
Only because it’s paradigm shifting and worldview shattering.
“Only baby teeth grow back, and if you lose your adult teeth you’re fucked, enjoy your dentures.”
Don’t worry though, you probably have a few decades to realign your worldview. 9/10 of clinical trials fail.
I will become a shark and you cannot stop me
Honestly, I’m not sure I want to. can I join you instead?
Nah, this is progress. Why wouldn’t I want to be able to grow my teeth back?
I mean, yes. It’s amazing.
Still weird. I guess I’m stuck on the whole… adults teething issues.
Eh, as long as you don’t get all your teeth knocked out at once, or are old and completely toothless when you get treated, it shouldnt be much of a problem. But yeah, weird thought.
I’ve grown accustomed to liquified chicken gizzards
You do you
If we learn how to regrow teeth, I wonder if we’ll learn how to regrow bones after that.
Soon we’ll be farming volunteer humans for bone marrow stew. Sign up, have several bones removed—femur, tibia, you name it—and cracked open for that sweet juicy marrow. Then a steady supply of bone growing pills to start the process all over again.
This is basically the plot to The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline, minus the volunteering portion
Let’s be honest, once you get the taste for marrow stew the no volunteering part is merely an obstacle.
We’ll be 3D printing bones relatively soon I’m guessing.
Fuck yeah!
hello yes, i would like to grow 10,000 teeth
On site or take away?
“On site please. Yes that’s right, just tip them straight onto the bed”
Finally I can get my vagina dentata.
pls no
Pics
This is a good point. It says it will grow teeth, it doesn’t say where.
Im fine with that. Ill never need the poop knife again once my anal chompers come in.
Monkeys paw, you develop tastebuds there too.
DO NOT GOOGLE RECTAL TASTEBUDS - Or do. But be prepared to have your mind blown.
[Edit: seriously. Tastebuds are already there…]
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I actually wasn’t making a joke. The anus and testicles/scrotum both have tastebuds.
I guess if you like using poop for playdough… things would turn into a spaghetti press really quick…
Every little girl’s dream. Heck, every boy’s dream, for that matter.
Could I get some in my ass to make a Play-Doh factory?
Bruh
You’re right. I will try to be more original.
We should pose as dealers and prank toothless drug abusers with tooth regrowth medicine
Oops! All Teeth!
Not the BEST selling cereal ever… 🤷
At least it won’t matter if you break a tooth
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Teeth have always kind of struck me as something we could eventually not just replace or regrow and make as good as new, but actually replace with something better.
Teeth are, by their nature, subject to a lot of wear and tear, corrosive environments, have a lot of nooks and crannies that need to be cleaned regularly, etc.
How fucking cool would it be to have some sort of cyborg teeth made of some material that won’t wear down, is more corrosion resistant, stronger than your natural teeth, etc? You could use your teeth as a bottle opener with impunity, or do everything else your parents always warned you not to do with your teeth.
I’m certainly no doctor or material scientist to suggest what the ideal tooth replacement material would be, but imagine having some kind of titanium alloy super teeth that would never wear down, corrode, or get cavities no matter what kind of neglect or abuse you subject them to, and are purposely engineered for easier flossing, may e even more efficient biting and chewing. Sure, the Jaws look isn’t everyone’s aesthetic, but some of us might consider it a worthwhile trade-off.
In the meantime though, this is damn cool if it pans out.
The problem there is that the teeth are supported by the jaw bones.
We’ve had dental implants for the past 2 decades that are pretty indestructible as you describe. The only problem is the jaw bones you drill into aren’t that robust. Especially when you start putting multiple holes in it to hold the teeth. So the jaw bone part of the implant tends to fail after about a decade or two, even when the tooth part of it is still plenty robust.
Which frankly is the same problem faced by all proposed cybernetic implants/augmentations. The cybernetic part can be as indestructible as you want, but the organics its attached to are comparatively fragile.
Thr flesh is weak.
Yeah and those implants are no joke in strength
Trigger Warning: true story of workplace injury involving a coworker and his teeth.
It's light on injury descriptions at least
One of my coworkers a few months ago had a 200lbs roll of aluminum fall on his head. His implant collided with 3 teeth above it and blew those up.
He’s mostly recovered at this point from the whole ordeal (concussion, smashed fingers, etc.) he’s just waiting on the bone grafts to heal up for the replacement teeth that are going in.
And yes he got lucky that the roll mostly glanced off of him towards the front. Had he gotten hit straight on top of the head (or it glanced towards the back) he likely would have broken his neck or died.
Jesus H. Christ.
I’m glad your colleague got away with fairly minor injuries.
I bet the OSHA department is having a hell of a time now.
Honestly blew my mind that he walking the next time I saw him
Oh yeah our safety department threw a fit especially when they found out that he was not wearing a hardhat
But also…
The last paragraph has a Mechanicus ring to it lmao
I guess we’ll just have to replace all the organic parts
Why waste time with crude matter when we could just be pure energy?
I, for one, intend on becoming a Cyberghost, should I die resentful enough to cause a curse of undeath.
but then you just get bludgeoned with a dildo by someone possessed by the ghost of Keanu Reeves
Honestly? Not the worst way to go out.
But it has to be Keanu
Do you crave the strength and certainty of steel?
I’d settle for billet aluminum.
What’s the quote from? 40k?
Specifically the 40k game “Mechanicus”
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Man’s out here with the monocrystalline-corundum-coated titanium based tooth implants
The jaws look would be so cool but imagine if you accidentally bit your cheek while chewing gum or something.
I don’t really follow teeth stuff but don’t we already have teeth replacements today?
“Hesh wants metal teeth!”- Hesh
Natural teeth attached to the jaw will always be better than any artificial alternative. Moreso now because they can be regrown.
How does one sign up? I’m asking for a friend.
This is for congenital lack of teeth. not for people who have had their teeth removed.
That appears to be the current goal, but it still looks like the phase-1 will be on healthy adults which is pretty creepy to imagine!
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Not really. The research papers mention an interaction between an antibody and a gene that controls tooth growth in both humans and mice. If that gene is supressed, there is no tooth growth.
However, every tooth you can ever grow, or at least the embryonal tissue for it, is already present at birth. There is no way to get more, and activating this gene would not give you additional tissue to develop into new teeth.
So are they only looking at safety and toxicity in this trial, and not expecting to see additional tooth growth?
Not yet, but it could potentially lead to further innovations in that regard.
Well that’s certainly a game changer
Shit, I need this.
