Waiting for a pharmaceutical company patenting the shit out of this and selling it $500,000 per tooth, and for insurance companies denying covering it because it is "experimental" or "unnecessary". Fun times in the USA.
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It will be unnecessary as long as dentures are the cheaper option. If there is a drug that can regrow teeth then denture manufacturers will start jacking up their costs now to offset the decline in need. Eventually they will be equally priced, they will both be $1 million.
I don't like your take. It's not cynical or pessimistic enough
Except that you can't really compare dentures and teeth. Not having teeth brings along a bunch of side effects like loss of bone structure in the jaw that wouldn't happen with teeth.
Still, there is the rest of the world to be considered where health insurance actually deals with pharmaceutical companies and makes them sell their products with realistic prices.
OK, so you’re not really regrowing teeth, you’re growing a hidden, third, backup tooth using some sort of gene therapy.
Cool
It's reactivating a tooth bud. They could do it 4th or 5th times but iirc the actual tooth formation gets funky the more teeth you grow
tooth formation gets funky the more teeth you grow
this sentence is quite cursed
I don't know what you mean.
Lol AI generated teeth
Babe, I can tell you haven't clipped your teeth in a while
I'd rather be chewing on bark like a rodent.
Can't wait to grow my teeth out
What I'm expecting
And what you'll get:
Can I have my current teeth removed and grow in a set that are less fucked up?
Granted, your existing teeth will fall out all at once the next time you are really nervous and your new set of teeth will finish growing in when you turn 98.
Does that mean I’m guaranteed to live until at least 98? Deal
almost 30 years ago I was hearing about a company that grew new teeth, I can't remember if in your jaw or for later implantation. I've been waiting for EVER!
I dunno if I'd like teeth like the ones in the pic. I mean sometimes they'd be fun, but not always.