Posted on 03/16/2025 9:15:09 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 5 Years
While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness.
Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials.
If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of toothlessness sometime around 2030.
The average adult human body contains 206 bones—the hardened mixtures of calcium, minerals, and collagen that provide the biological scaffolding that walks us through our day. While we may not think of them much, bones are incredibly resilient. But if they do break, they have this nifty trick of regrowing themselves.
Teeth, however, are not bones. Although they’re made of some of the same stuff and are the hardest material in the human body (thanks to its protective layer of enamel), they lack the crucial ability to heal and regrow themselves. But that may not always be the case. Japanese researchers are moving forward with an experimental drug that promises to regrow human teeth. Human trials began in September 2024.
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Does it grow teeth everywhere in your body?
I believe that finger regrowing only works if the damage is above the last knuckle.
$2k for implant is very inexpensive, I’d question the quality. I’ve had 2 and they were about 5k each
I’ve never had a cavity or a dental problem. Still, I heard somewhere that everyone should get a professional cleaning so I went for one, and they stalled on the cleaning and said I ought to have my wisdom teeth removed. The teeth weren’t bothering me, they weren’t misaligned or infected or anything, but the dentist really wanted to take them out. A “preventive measure,” I think. So I went to another dentist, who also wanted my teeth. I declined, and didn’t go to a third dentist, who would have wanted a third set of x-rays and, probably, my wisdom teeth.
Thank heavens doctors aren’t like that...or are they?
...or maybe not. Experts don’t know. Please read our article anyway.
Unfortunately decades of the standard American diet put my teeth in a bad position. All I can do at this point is avoid any new damage.
Just what I was thinking, take the pill and people will grow tusks lol
Wow so you’re in the same boat. Yeah this dentist if you can believe it had a female assistant with ample boobs who would lean over while he was working on me and he would give me nitrous oxide and I was in la la land, and everytime I went he would say “Oh you need a root canal and caps”, and what did I know? He’s the dentist and he did it to almost every tooth over the span of a year like you had around 20 caps. I must have been insane to let him do that.
Well then as time went on the caps started falling out and I had jobs with no dental insurance, a lot of the caps were crooked so my real teeth under the caps rotted away and good God, the pain was unreal, a lot couldn’t be saved so I had them pulled.
Now I got false ones, bridges, and I was thinking of implants but they want a ridiculous sum like $40,000
But I’ve seen billboards promising new teeth in one day.
I would hat to have teeth grow in the wrong place. EEEEOOOOOch!
lost all my teeth 15 years ago I fear at b58 years old I wont get a chance to get new teeth.
Really? $2K is cheap for an implant? I had no idea. Thanks for the info.
ha yeah if you happen to have a spare $40,000. A lot of those aren’t even implants, they are dentures bolted into your skull and jaw bone.
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