I’ve been hearing about re-growing teeth for 20 years. Still nothing. It’s right up there with nuclear fusion.
Cold nuclear fusion. We were quite successful with the hot kind, uncontrolled.
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 kinda stable controlled fission reactor.
I mean, we can make fusion happen, but it’s not exactly useful outside of turning things into not things anymore.
That’s what they said…
Grow them… where?
…toe teeth!
Edit: my 100th comment!
I they’re gonna take 4 years to grow, I’ll just stick with fillings.
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 with a clickbait header to make sure you go there to watch the ads to make them money.
Popular mechanics is a terrible source. They post click bait trash like this on a consistent basis.
They’ve been doing it since before clickbait was even a thing!
Rich humans. Us peasants won’t be able to.
Nah. Because
Sweet dreams.
The reason toddlers have such cute chubby cheeks… because they’re chock full of teeth :D
Popular Mechanics wrote an article saying exactly this same thing like 10 years ago.
Did they? I can’t find it.
It may have been Popular Science, the other side of the same rag coin.
Swear articles like this get pushed every few years. Let me know when it’s a reality I can get at my local dentist.
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?
Just to annoy you, is it working? I hope so.
Maybe they care about other technologies that aren’t constantly just a couple years away?
I get the best biomedical research news from Popular Mechanics.
4 Years? I can grow a new set in 1.
How?
By making babies, most get their first 6 or so by age one
Punching children in the mouth and stealing loose teeth.
/s
Correction: rich humans
Everything is expensive at first, before getting cheaper in the long rub
yeah except all the things getting more expensive year after year
Like cars? Televisions? Home appliances?
Like dental care
How about sticking to the actual topic: Medicine and dentistry.
Getting a basic filling in 1925 versus the same procedure in 2025.
Regardless of who pays (government, the patient, insurance, etc) which would be more expensive?
By the way:
Basic Model T price in 1909: $825 or $30,000 today.
Basic sedan price in 2025: $30,000
Average price of a car in 2025: $50,000
Cost of model T in 1913: $14,000
Cost of model T in 1916: $9,000
See how the price went down after its 1909 release ? 😁
Find me a new car for $9,000 in the modern day.
Motorcycles can be around that price. Even new.
Can they make it stop too? Not taking any chances on this.
Hopefully not, iv always wanted the powers of a rat!
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.
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.
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.
There are larger, more established correlational studies that show a link between dental health and overall physical health as well. There needs to be much more study done but preliminary evidence would suggest that preventive dental care provides for a cheaper overall health cost for a person over their lifetime.
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.
Luxury bones
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.
Then there is the constant risk of biting on something hard and busting a tooth. I’ve had it happen 3 fucking times.
Keeping acidic things on your teeth pulls out the flouride making them brittle over time. The flouride added to all kinds of stuff is meant to help with that but the effectiveness is questionable. Better to simply not keep acidic stuff in your mouth too long, and to clean your teeth with your tongue after or swish some water.
Coke is famous for causing brittle teeth.
Have you tried flossing?
What does that have to do with biting down on an olive pit or a bit of clam shell?
doesnt work on the biting surfaces, need to invest an electric or sonic tooth brush for that. and regular cleanings from the dentists. also discourage the usage of whitening toothpaste.
I have all of those things and get regular cleanings. No whitening toothpaste or treatments.
regular cleanings and probably mouthwash once in a while, and i use stannous flouride which is better than the regular kind.
nHAP is allegedly used by the flouride free crowd without a significant efficacy since there is more than one company making nHAP, i noticed most of them are obsessed with stuffing it with abrasives, so be wary.
Just gonna drop this here for anyone that wants to know about the best way to take care of teeth.
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.
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.
Okay but… what kinna teeth we talkin…? Any teeth?
I’d kill for some sharper canines lol
like this?beware of fanged girls. also, beware of idols. especially, beware of fanged idols.
Yes.
Mine are so sharp the dentist asked if I wanted them dulled a bit. I of course told him to leave em sharp!
Depends on your attack profile and what you’re biting: do you want slash, stab or crush damage?
Shark mouth
Been hearing this claim for 20 years. Let me know where and when I can sign up for the trails.
It’s always 5 years away though, this one is 4! We’re making progress.
24 years is way worse than 5
Hahaha, I’m strangely proud of understanding that joke :D
It was 5 years away last year and now this year it’s 4 years away! Why do they keep changing the number !!1!
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.
