This is fucking AWESOME!!!
I’ve been taking care of my teeth because of an irrational (rational?) fear of losing them, but any accident could cause a couple of lost teeth and that’s just fucked, permanent too
Yep. I lost a tooth to dropping a cell phone on my face while laying on the couch. The edge hit my lower teeth.
Welcome to the Genetic Age. Hopefully someone’s researching the Ecotopian or Digital Democracy civics, it’s almost Turn 2025 AD for Sid Meier’s sake!
Wait, this is a possibility? That’s awesome
I’ve been excitedly telling my doctors that this is possibly on the horizon. And I make sure to point out there’s a real pubmed article with an actual picture of a ferret in it that has a little extra tooth grown in. Most are surprised but excited when I talk about it.
It’s absolutely not pie in the sky like so many things seem, it literally worked on a mammal already.
That will be really wild, if they can get it to work.
I can’t imagine that the tooth growing process will be very fast though. I’d guess months to a year, or even longer if they want to be careful about it.
It would be worth the wait, though! One thing (among others) that makes this sounds so great is that it wouldn’t put others out. If I was 90, and wanted the chance at some teeth, and survived another five years, what a great boost in quality of life without keeping a younger candidate on a list. Same as for that 10 year old I imagine, great confidence boost and probably improved of diet.
