Grow-your-own to replace false teeth

The Guardian ^ | May 3, 2004 | Ian Sample

[Graymatter]

And you get it to stop growing, how?

[EuroFrog]

I saw that freak on TV the other night. Instead of looking like a tiger, I think he just looks like, well, a freak.

[EuroFrog]

That should be West Virginia, not England.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Nope. Actually, the "toothbrush" was invented in China c.1497

I didn't know that. Another Chinese invention. The Chinese were technologically ahead of everyone until 1500 or so and Europe began to surpass them. Around this same time, they had huge sailing ships -- actually container ships -- the hull was divided into watertight sections, something not tried again until the 19th century.

[null and void]

The Chinese bureaucracy killed the exploration. Too many new ideas were coming into China with the trade goods.

That they were able to utterly destroy all records of a trade network that stretched all the way to the Cape of Good Hope remains to this day one of bureaucracies greatest achievements.

It's why I in California, and you in Switzerland are not communicating in ideograms...

[DoughtyOne]

Yeah, but it's kindof tough to take that medicine from the time you go to sleep until you arrive home after work. The rest is pure gravy. heh heh heh...

[Twinkie]

A neighbor of mine caught a small bass fish and put it
in a little aquarium on his little girl's dresser and they
feed it crawdads and minnows they catch in the creek. Does
this qualify?

[bjcintennessee]

Ping

[edayna]

Absolutely - it's an evolutionary issue. Used to be, most people didn't live long enough to worry about losing their adult teeth to decay. Now that some are living to 100 or so, a third set 'round about our 30's or 40's would really come in handy! I could use a few.

[kennedy]

When was the last time you were around someone over 70?

The article said "The average Briton over 50 has lost 12 teeth." I'm not quite 50, but I'm getting close and I still have all of my teeth (even my wisdom teeth).

[lainde]

reference!

[SauronOfMordor]

The average Briton over 50 has lost 12 teeth from a set of 32.
Holy cow! That's a lot of missing teeth...

The joys of government-supplied [dental] health care

[Chewbacca]

"The average Briton over 50 has lost 12 teeth from a set of 32."

If they would brush their teeth and see a 'free' dentist more often, I doubt this would happen.

My Grandmother is 80 and has all her own teeth.

[legs28]

Yes, but that is the reason God invented Alcohol. To make being in pain. That much more bearable.

[sweetliberty]

"Think of how much easier it would be to scoop up peas."

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