alphacyberrangerWorld’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials
robocallCool now please help me regrow my gums so my teeth don’t fall out.
SuckMyWangFirst help me regrow my jaw so my gums don’t fall out.
gum disease is no joke. It’ll take your gums and jawbone. Wish someone would help us out.
Colonel SandersFirst help me regrow my head so myyahsbdbdjduxhd
FuglyDuckSo…. Anybody else feel this is……
I dunno… weird?
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.”
photonic_sorcererNah, this is progress. Why wouldn’t I want to be able to grow my teeth back?
I’ve grown accustomed to liquified chicken gizzards
You do you
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.
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.
I will become a shark and you cannot stop me
Honestly, I’m not sure I want to. can I join you instead?
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.
Flying SquidWe’ll be 3D printing bones relatively soon I’m guessing.
Fuck yeah!
KarthNemesishello yes, i would like to grow 10,000 teeth
Something Burger 🍔On site or take away?
“On site please. Yes that’s right, just tip them straight onto the bed”
GCostanzaStepOnMeFinally I can get my vagina dentata.
Every little girl’s dream. Heck, every boy’s dream, for that matter.
Gradually_AdjustingCould I get some in my ass to make a Play-Doh factory?
You’re right. I will try to be more original.
We should pose as dealers and prank toothless drug abusers with tooth regrowth medicine
Gormadtpls no
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.
I guess if you like using poop for playdough… things would turn into a spaghetti press really quick…
kevinBLTMonkeys paw, you develop tastebuds there too.
DO NOT GOOGLE RECTAL TASTEBUDS - Or do. But be prepared to have your mind blown.
Well, sometimes there are tastebuds there, if she’s nasty.
I actually wasn’t making a joke. The anus and testicles both have tastebuds.
Oops! All Teeth!
Not the BEST selling cereal ever… 🤷
At least it won’t matter if you break a tooth
This is really cool, and I hope it pans out, but I have a bit of a transhumanist streak and it kind of feels to me like teeth are something that we could eventually not just regrow or replace and make as good as new, but actually replace with something even better with technology/materials that are either already here or not too far off.
I’m certainly no doctor or material scientist, but
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.
Man’s out here with the monocrystalline-sapphire-coated titanium based tooth implants
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.
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 leastOne 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 not only was he not wearing a hardhat
But also…
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
SomeSphinxHonestly? 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”
I think that’s the idea with most of these treatments including stem-cells. We’re going to replace the organic parts with new organic parts that are your own DNA. No need for any incisions or cuts or scarring or recovery.