this is one of TWO great new tooth therapies i’ve been very interested in!
in one, they pack your cavities or cracked tooth or whatever with stem cells and then trigger those stem cells to become tooth cells and your tooth basically heals itself :D
in this one, they basically tell your genes, “hey, remember that bit of genetic code that caused your body to grow a whole new set of teeth when you were like 8 years old? Yeah, run that code again right here” or, more accurately, what they really do is tell your body to temporarily stop running the extra bit of code that prevents you continuously growing new teeth like a shark.
anyway, can you imagine? Right now if you lose an adult tooth, in order to replace it they have to drill into your skull bones and screw in a fake one. In ten years you might be able to just… grow a new one! the future of dentistry is about to be so cool!
I’ve complained about my inability to constantly regrow teeth for ages now. crossing my fingers I can get this at some point
if this works this is gonna benefit a whole lot of people
Gonna use all our extra teeth to make terrifying weapons
Finally, I can have all my teeth comically fall out when I bite something hard on accident and then regrow them for the next time that needs to happen
