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.
  • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    3 days ago

    Sweet.

    Been waiting 20 years for this.

    I congenitally lack 4 teeth. For those teeth, the milk baby teeth never fell out. I ripped one out at 15, and the dentist took the last when I was 18.

    Amazing if sometime I’ll just be able to take a pill an regrowth them. Painful prolly tho.

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  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    Every time I read about this, I have to ask: I have had an adult tooth removed and replaced with an implant. I’m scheduled to have another tooth removed (an incisor. I’m currently on a no biting things diet and I’m getting sick of soup). What happens if I take this medicine?

  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I wonder if this will work for people that never got their adult teeth to begin with. My mom is missing like 4, and her mom 7. I’m sure they’d love to get some real replacements

    • ShrimpCurler@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      I heard about this before and from memory, that’s how this started. People were researching why adult teeth weren’t growing and were looking for what could make them grow.