This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
"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.
I could never ever work in that field, it gives me the ick. So I appreciate people who can.
Also enamel is the hardest substance in your body; AFAIK chemically it is indeed interesting and hard (ha) to emulate with other bio-safe materials.
But will it allow us to create new body armors, is what I want to know.
Simply line yourself with the teeth of your enemies (if they flossed regularly)
I could never ever work in that field, it gives me the ick. So I appreciate people who can.
It's almost as bad being married to someone that works in that field.
My wife is a dental hygienist. Some of the horrific shit she sends me would turn your stomach. And then the experiences she's had working on teeth... Just so so gross. 🤮🤮
My wife is also a dental hygienist, and she has never once sent me any horrific shit…. So I don’t think that’s a trait necessarily tied to the occupation, lol
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.
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
What could PAWSIBLY go wrong?
Finally, my dream of making teeth anywhere you can imagine could be realized.
FINALLY vaginadentata won’t just be a pipe dream.
🎵 Vagina Dentata, what a wonderful phrase! 🎵
Teeth growing inside tumors is already a thing. Just grow some tumors.
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.
You think teething and a soft food diet isn't a downside? Any time I have anything done that requires soft food, I'm craving solid food within like three days. It sucks.
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.
The teeth regrowth thing was only two years ago.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2014.00036/full
It's been in the works for over ten years. Here is a paper on research into it from 2014.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3000521/
Here's another one from 2010.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761608000070#cesec60
And another from 2008.
At this point it's a race between teeth, fusion and GTA 6. Place your bets, people.
I bet GTA 6, if only because those investors are going to be more bloodthirsty about it coming out eventually.
Teeth and fusion need approval to be safe from the...government...
I withdraw my bet.
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.
Can they make one to generate beaver enamel? I will accept the red color if I can chew through a tree.
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 $$$
When I can access it, I'll be happy.
Side effects: sharp fangs and uncontrollable drooling.
Win win
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.
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 😂
