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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 156 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (10 children)

im sure this won't end up with manmade horrors beyond my comprehension

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool now please help me regrow my gums so my teeth don't fall out.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First help me regrow my jaw so my gums don’t fall out.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

gum disease is no joke. It'll take your gums and jawbone. Wish someone would help us out.

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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Teeth have always kind of struck me as something we could eventually not just replace or regrow and make as good as new, but actually replace with something better.

Teeth are, by their nature, subject to a lot of wear and tear, corrosive environments, have a lot of nooks and crannies that need to be cleaned regularly, etc.

How fucking cool would it be to have some sort of cyborg teeth made of some material that won't wear down, is more corrosion resistant, stronger than your natural teeth, etc? You could use your teeth as a bottle opener with impunity, or do everything else your parents always warned you not to do with your teeth.

I'm certainly no doctor or material scientist to suggest what the ideal tooth replacement material would be, but imagine having some kind of titanium alloy super teeth that would never wear down, corrode, or get cavities no matter what kind of neglect or abuse you subject them to, and are purposely engineered for easier flossing, may e even more efficient biting and chewing. Sure, the Jaws look isn't everyone's aesthetic, but some of us might consider it a worthwhile trade-off.

In the meantime though, this is damn cool if it pans out.

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The problem there is that the teeth are supported by the jaw bones.

We've had dental implants for the past 2 decades that are pretty indestructible as you describe. The only problem is the jaw bones you drill into aren't that robust. Especially when you start putting multiple holes in it to hold the teeth. So the jaw bone part of the implant tends to fail after about a decade or two, even when the tooth part of it is still plenty robust.

Which frankly is the same problem faced by all proposed cybernetic implants/augmentations. The cybernetic part can be as indestructible as you want, but the organics its attached to are comparatively fragile.

[–] swordthensnow@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I guess we'll just have to replace all the organic parts

[–] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you crave the strength and certainty of steel?

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[–] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why waste time with crude matter when we could just be pure energy?

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah and those implants are no joke in strength

Trigger Warning: true story of workplace injury involving a coworker and his teeth.

It's light on injury descriptions at least

One of my coworkers a few months ago had a 200lbs roll of aluminum fall on his head. His implant collided with 3 teeth above it and blew those up.

He's mostly recovered at this point from the whole ordeal (concussion, smashed fingers, etc.) he's just waiting on the bone grafts to heal up for the replacement teeth that are going in.

And yes he got lucky that the roll mostly glanced off of him towards the front. Had he gotten hit straight on top of the head (or it glanced towards the back) he likely would have broken his neck or died.

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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Thr flesh is weak.

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[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man's out here with the monocrystalline-corundum-coated titanium based tooth implants

[–] SomeSphinx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The jaws look would be so cool but imagine if you accidentally bit your cheek while chewing gum or something.

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[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 60 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Finally I can get my vagina dentata.

[–] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Every little girl's dream. Heck, every boy's dream, for that matter.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we learn how to regrow teeth, I wonder if we'll learn how to regrow bones after that.

[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Soon we’ll be farming volunteer humans for bone marrow stew. Sign up, have several bones removed—femur, tibia, you name it—and cracked open for that sweet juicy marrow. Then a steady supply of bone growing pills to start the process all over again.

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[–] JdW@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Seeing as teething babies cry a lot, I wonder how painful this process will be.

[–] LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch 15 points 1 year ago

I had some "teething" as my wisdom teeth came in. It's painful, and causes a fever, but babies have no understanding of why they are in pain, and no way to deal with it. As an adult, it's not fun, but it's manageable and much less scary.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That's because their teeth are busting through their fleshy gums. Presumably this would be growing out an existing hole.

Dare ya to search "baby teeth skull".

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] Brekky@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Wonder if we could somehow plan for them to grow in straight?

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago

The grift against the tooth fairy is about to reach fever pitch

[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And it will cost me a kidney !

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

That's pretty awesome for some folks - my uncle had three sets of teeth, so the last set was extremely brittle. I'm curious if calcium supplements and this drug could provide an alternative to dentures.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you say your uncle had a third set of natural grown teeth? I always assumed everyone had two sets only.

[–] Someology@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, some people have a complete third set. Some people only have a partial third set, or even have third teeth in just a few positions within the mouth. A dentist who told me about this said it's a little rare, but not super rare.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, they came in in his thirties, which was like 40-50 years ago. It hasn't happened to anyone else in the family thankfully, though he himself never had kids.

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[–] Cihta@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I could be crazy but I swear I've heard this a number of times before. It always seemed wonderful as my teeth tend to self-destruct. But nothing ever seems to come from it.

It would be nice if we just naturally grew a new set every 10 years or so but people with strong teeth would be quite annoyed at that especially if they had to do alignment.

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[–] aeternum@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is for congenital lack of teeth. not for people who have had their teeth removed.

[–] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That appears to be the current goal, but it still looks like the phase-1 will be on healthy adults which is pretty creepy to imagine!

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay. I had a broken tooth removed and replaced with a titanium implant. What would happen to me if I took this drug?

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Your bio-engineered tooth and cybernetic tooth would have to battle to the death.

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[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Super excited for this. One of my adult teeth just never grew in. I tried to get an implant, but the lack of tooth also resulted in too little bone there to support the implant. I'm hopeful this would eventually allow me to have a real tooth there instead of my very fragile bridge.

[–] Vlixz@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is absolutely amazing! I have oligodontia myself and just the thought of being able to actually get those teeth back is pretty cool! I already have 3 implants - still have 8 more to go - but placing them HURTS... would be pretty interesting to see how far they're in a couple of years.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looking forward to seeing this. It may not benefit me, hut I hope it benefits the future.

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[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This picture was the first thing that came to mind.

https://i.imgur.com/uhiMrxr.jpg

[–] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even worse... what if.. get this... hold on a minute... causes...

Vagina Dentata

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[–] KarthNemesis@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

hello yes, i would like to grow 10,000 teeth

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Shit, I need this.

[–] Dr_pepper_spray@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, I assume that the side-effects of this drug might be "anal teeth" or something.

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