Okay, but grow teeth WHERE?
I have been looking forward to this for 2 decades.
Every dentist I’ve ever been to has told me that they didn’t know when research would be progressing on actual regrowth.
Finally, we’re in the maybe soon stage.
Hope the trials go well.
as early as 2030
You might still have another decade waiting.
How will I threaten my child to brush their teeth now?
Well now you can pull one out whenever it starts getting yellow and regrow it. It won’t take many for him to start brushing.
Jesus. 😱 How long do you think it takes to regrow a child?
This shit better be affordable and covered by health insurance.
It will be.
In civilised societies
A step closer on my childhood dream of becoming a street shark!
Oh wow, that’s a show I haven’t thought about in a looong time.
I do wish that media coverage would stop calling it a regrowth drug. It might get there eventually, but that’s not what it is, and it causes issues with people misunderstanding medical science.
Trials are set to include only adult males at first, then children at later rounds. That’s not ideal.
I’m super pumped about the prospect of regrowing teeth though!
Often times people assigned female at birth are excluded from these kinds of medical trials because the female cycle can affect the measurements so much, which can distort the outcome. Still sucks but there’s at least medical dispensation to discriminate.
Source: I was excluded from some paid medical test on some grounds and I had a conversation about reasons for exclusions with the people that were rejecting my application :-)
Yep, and then doctors and researchers go all surprised Pikachu face when it turns out that eg. some pain medication doesn’t work as well on women, but naturally this conclusion is only arrived at after decades of insisting that they should work and that you’re just being an irrational hysterical feeeeemale if you say they don’t
“It appears the drug may be too effective. The test patients have had to start chewing on things to keep their teeth from growing through their own skull.”
“Bob, we’re still testing it on mice…”
