People with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones, say Japanese dentists testing a pioneering drug they hope will offer an alternative to dentures and implants.
  • Gadg8eer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Welcome to the Genetic Age. Hopefully someone’s researching the Ecotopian or Digital Democracy civics, it’s almost Turn 2025 AD for Sid Meier’s sake!

    • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been excitedly telling my doctors that this is possibly on the horizon. And I make sure to point out there’s a real pubmed article with an actual picture of a ferret in it that has a little extra tooth grown in. Most are surprised but excited when I talk about it.

      It’s absolutely not pie in the sky like so many things seem, it literally worked on a mammal already.

  • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    It’s going to be really awesome when we can all see first hand how teeth will be the new way to distinguish between rich and poor. Cuz even if this works most of us won’t be able to afford it