“Dental enamel has a unique structure, which gives enamel its remarkable properties that protect our teeth throughout life against physical, chemical, and thermal insults,” said lead author Dr. Abshar Hasan
This man doesn’t just disapprove of people mistreating their teeth, he is personally insulted by it. A true dentist.
1/10 dentists disagree with this guy.
The researchers used extracted human molars as an ex vivo model, first etching their enamel or dentine surfaces with acid to mimic different stages of tooth erosion. They then applied a single coating of the biomimetic elastin-like recombinamer (ELR) gel and let it dry. Finally, the teeth were immersed in carefully controlled mineralization baths that replicated the ionic environment of saliva.
Keep in mind this hasn’t been shown to actually help teeth in someone’s mouth.
Just from that, it seems like its a patch job, not capable of regrowing from zero.
i wouldn’t expect that from a gel
I definitely saw lots of ads on AliExpress for gels that would regrow your teeth before their algorithm realized I wasn’t there for that.
To be fair, the research is on regenerating, not regrowing. I wouldn’t expect regrowing lost teeth to be possible any time soon, unless some kind of bio 3D-printing method became available.
My guess is that they can slowly regrow lost enamel under fillings, slowly build back up later by layer until a filling is no longer needed. What would be amazing is a cure for gum disease.
Hell yeah. I’m gonna overuse this shit and just have 2 gigantic teeth. One on the top and one on the bottom. No more flossing for me. Fuse those bad boys together. I’ll have the smile of an N64 game character.
Currently sitting in an Uber relying on autocorrect to spell for me. I don’t want to belly laugh and make my driver think I’m a crazy person fuk u
Gotta get that cartoon chin as well.
if you’re gonna get chin work, make sure you have a butt chin (with a smaller, extendable butt implant installed in the cleft)
Settle down Mitch Hedberg.
Finally, my dream of making teeth anywhere you can imagine could be realized.
FINALLY vaginadentata won’t just be a pipe dream.
Teeth growing inside tumors is already a thing. Just grow some tumors.
Imagine if teeth were like antlers where they emerge covered in skin that’s ripped off every year
Thanks for the new nightmare. I hate it.
I no longer get excited about medical innovation because I know I’ll never be able to afford to benefit from any of it. I’m lucky to have gotten vaccinated as a child while that was still legal for the poors
When I was a teenager it was announced that we would soon be able to stimulate the growth of brand new teeth, right in the mouth. I’m almost 50 and I need some new fuckin’ teeth real soon.
There was a new development in japan less than a year ago. Downside is all your teeth fall out and all regrow
I’m sorry, I thought you said there was a downside.
Tooth fairy isn’t unionized.
She’s ionized?
The problem is those new teeth were soft with no enamel. This could address that. Either way, no insurance will cover this and it will cost a fortune.
My teeth already have no enamel so I’m game.
No offense, but unless you have some sort of condition like not growing enamel, what have you been doing for your teeth to be that bad at not even 50? Chewing on anvils and flossing with barbed wire?
Bruxism. Why, what’s wrong with you? Sheesh.
Playing hockey?
If this is legit and dental industry doesn’t try to drown it in a bathtub I’ll be fucking shocked.
It would be really incredible if they can manage to make this an OTC offering. This is huge.
After reading that article, this feels like something that I would want a trained professional to oversee.
Maybe similar to fluoride, there can be a low-concentration version OTC, with the strong professional version only being available directly.
I’ve heard of stuff like this for well over a decade. Seems like there’s a new article about teeth regrowth every month, either enamel or full teeth. Still waiting on real results.
It’s a subject that targets people’s deep-seated insecurities. Everybody wants a tooth that can regenerate when they first discover a cavity for themselves.
With enamel regrowing constantly after the smallest scratch, cavities cannot get to where they form.
This hokum story is promising no more cavities ever.
It’s the new new battery tech!
We have had massive improvements in batteries so that bodes well!
But batteries consistently improve year on year, we just keep increasing the demand of our devices in lockstep because 10% more powerful! markets much better than 10% more battery life.
Battery tech is the new fusion, just 10 years away!
I fully believe most dentists would rather kill the inventor of whoever lets us regrow teeth for cheap than let it come to the light of day
Change my mind.
The only way this sees the market is if it is nerfed to require reapplication every six months.
Dentists make a lot more money off of major repairs and general maintenance than they do by replacing teeth entirely.
Oral surgeons on the other hand do make money off major repairs to damaged teeth or teeth replacements. I know people often call anyone who works on teeth a dentist, but technically they are different professions.
Huh? If you could regrow a teeth with a simple solution then they would not make money off of anything except pulling them out, and prescribing luxury bone juice.
I sure af would not waste money fixing teeth I could just regrow, especially if it can regrow in place as this article suggests without the awkward missing tooth phase.
It would be like rotors on cars. Nobody resurfaces them anymore - they just replace because replacing has become so cheap that there is no point.
But you do replace your brake pads before the wear out completely instead of just letting them grind your rotors, right?
Most dentist visits are like oil changes and vehicle checks to make sure things aren’t going to fail catastrophically.
You would be surprised how many people already don’t maintain their teeth and they aren’t replaceable yet for non ferrets.
How long until the dental restoration industry lobbies it out to be banned, so they can keep selling their photoshop jobs of people smiling with new teeth alongside crowns and implants, all at an inflated price?
It already happens with nano-hydroxyapatite pastes. In Europe you find them at the supermarket for 5 euro, in USA you need a prescription and it’s sold for $$$
Uh no. You can get nHA toothpaste in the USA without a prescription, not sure why you’d think that. It’s just not a popular item here so it’s not sold at brick and mortar stores for the most part, though some smaller stores have it. But I have no problem ordering the stuff online.
Proudly “fluoride free” too, which makes me immediately doubt the veracity of their dental health claims.
Maybe it changed in the recent years? I remember clearly it was forbidden by FDA for sale without prescription
Hopefully in the right place.
Behold my new chitinous armour plates!
Don’t give the military ideas like that.
Our medical knowledge is shockingly rudimentary. Why we can’t coax cells to do what they did anyway before is something we really need to understand to pretend to have any kind of medical knowledge. What passes for medicine is nothing more than 19th century++. See this, do that, body will heal. That’s about it. I’m shocked every time I see someone in a wheelchair, how can we have LLMs and hallucinated movies but not understand how a few milligrams of organic matter organizes into nerves? etc etc etc
I am hoping that the absolutely bonkers computing power we are currently wasting on fart videos will be used to simulate matter in the future, here’s to cheering on the AI crash!
We have a pretty good idea how things work during development, it’s tricking those cells into the same process as a fully-formed organism that’s hard. Isolating and distributing the hormones in the right way. I think you’re underselling the complexity and scale of biology. We can’t just put a tiny camera and chemo-sensor inside a neuron and see what’s going on in real time and synthesize up a hundred thousand copies.
That’s my point, we’ll simulate it.
In reality, AI will help solve a lot of our medical ignorance. Not the goofball LLMs, but specialized AI algorithms specifically geared towards niche medical research and applications. Don’t let GPT and Gemini sour the potential of some possibly game changing software.
Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.
Win win
I’ve heard about something like this back in 90s for the first time. I guess we won’t see anything ever. Big tooth won’t allow it 😂
gimmie
I bet the catch here is it could accidentally grow anywhere in the body as long as it mimics what our mouth has (saliva). Imagine growing enamel in our tongues or throat.
Doesn’t matter without an anchor point
