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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/832489
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If this were to become commercially viable, dentists would move heaven and earth to stop it. Imagine killing 80% of a field with a simple commonplace product.
Who do you think will be doing this treatment?
why are you assuming it would require a physician
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.
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?
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
Why? More teeth to clean, fill, check and care for.
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.
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…
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.
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
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.
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.
The best description for teeth in the context of insurance that I’ve ever heard was “luxury bones”.
Eyes and skin are not far off if it want for the fact they were replied soon so much. (Re WHS protective goggles , sunscreen)
Just gonna drop this here for anyone that wants to know about the best way to take care of teeth.
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.
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?
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.
What does that have to do with biting down on an olive pit or a bit of clam shell?
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.
Nothing new in this article, it’s just rehashing stuff that’s already been announced and talked about since last year.
Bruh I’m gonna grow so many teeth. I wonder if we’ll be able to get crocodile teeth.
Like can I get just one crocodile tooth that hangs over my lip?
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.
Nah. Because
Sweet dreams.
The reason toddlers have such cute chubby cheeks… because they’re chock full of teeth :D
That’s a long time to grow a tooth. Can they do anything to speed that up? I’d like a new set of chompers by next week.
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~
My teeth are fine. Call me when someone has a cure for periodontitis!
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.
if I could have my gums back, I’d be so happy!
And only the fucking rich can afford it. You forgot that part in the title.
Rich humans*
Can they make it stop too? Not taking any chances on this.
Hopefully not, iv always wanted the powers of a rat!
But will I be able to schedule a dentist appointment in four years?
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