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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I’m automatically cautious about any new medicine and *miracle cure* that big pharma comes out with.
Too many unknowns and potential side effects.
And it happens too frequently.
I went through some physical trauma about 20 years ago that I’ve since recovered from but to be blunt, my noggin was affected and I didn’t take care of my teeth for about 3 years.
I lost all except 4 originals...unless you count crowns....
I have about 18 crowns and bridges combined and it all works great.
Did I get lucky?
Some fellow WOP dentist on staten island charged me like 4,000 for 8 front teeth, including the root canals, crowns and bridges...he’s a good guy. I asked him to not make my elderly mother see me without teeth in her lifetime....but I was willing to pay whatever the cost was over time...it was so cheap that I didn’t have to.
People tell me it was very cheap.
BTW, I’m sorry that happened to you. And I look forward to the day both of us get our real teeth back! We can hope! :)
As with many medical drugs remedies, the real difficulty is there is never enough time for truly long range side effects to be observed or eliminated.
“ a psychopath for a dentist who destroyed all my teeth for insurance money”
I had one of those as a child.
It’ll end up being proscribed for baldness.
“People tell me it was very cheap.“
If he did good work you got off cheap.
They feel and looks like my real teeth.
I was very lucky.
Too late for me unfortunately. I’ve had about 10 root canals and I have well over a dozen caps and crowns. They work great and I have no complaints about them but everytime you have to get one its a lot of discomfort and a few thousand dollars. I seem to get a surprise dental bill of $2-3 thousand dollars every year or two. By this point I have very few real teeth left. Horrible teeth run in my family. Thank god for modern dentistry.
You aren't the only one.
Throw in federal assistance programs and it’s drill baby drill.
Too bad Dr. McCoy wasn’t around when I needed a new liver! 🙂
I’m having a broken molar extracted tomorrow. They quoted me $2000 for an implant. (Which my crappy insurance doesn’t cover) I’m leaving it empty for the time being.
It wasn't until about two years after I got out, that a teammate on my softball team, who was a dentist, convinced me to have them fixed. And it was painless....
I had one of those as a child.
Same here; he filled all of my molars within a few years of them coming in. He was an alcoholic who died fairly young from related problems. Fortunately, I refused to go back to him when at age 15 he wanted to pull out all of my wisdom teeth long before they were even close to causing problems. My parents had a fit, but I was extremely stubborn from an early age. I also refused to have my tonsils removed.
This story could go on and on, because this and the next dentist that my parents found after the first one died was equally bad. All of my family other than myself have had very bad dental issues caused by bad dentistry, and the same is true of my wife. Fortunately, we found a very good dentist after my wife started having severe issues with her teeth. If it was not for that dentist, she would have a full set of dentures by now.
Oh, and I still have tonsils and all of my wisdom teeth; They came in without any problems. They are the only molars in my mouth that have never been filled.
Can hairs and peckers be next.
I hope they grow in the mouth and not the eye socket.
Dental care is soooo expensive. Insurance, if you’re lucky to have any, barely covers anything. Why are their prices so high?
I’ve been going to the dentist since I was 6,. Lots of cavities because I always detested milk, which got a barf alert from me since I was a baby. We lived in a suburb and every week I climbed on the train to go to Chicago to see a fab dentist there. He “saved my teeth’” for $$$$$ for many years. When I got married and moved to TX, dentists there all said they couldn’t do work that good. But they did the best they could.
That was decades ago. I go to the best dentist in Spokane, just paid him $1500 to “save my teeth” again, and I think he did. I’m lucky to have a single fang in my face at this point. (Cat owner, we always talk about fangs.)
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