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Humans may be able to grow new teeth within just 6 years. Japanese researchers are advancing a promising tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[–] parpol@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you accidentaly mix up your antibiotics ear drips with your tooth growing medicide, are you going to get ear teeth?

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, helping people is fine and all but I think we can all agree the real question is can we grow extra teeth and where?