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Grow your own teeth.

  • 28-12-2009 12:37PM
    #1
    Run_to_da_hills
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    I could do with a few of these ATM. :D

    Scientists are confident that people will soon be able to replace lost teeth by growing new ones. Instead of false teeth, a small ball of cells capable of growing into a new tooth will be implanted where the missing one used to be.

    The procedure needs only a local anesthetic and the new tooth should be fully formed within a few months of the cells being implanted".


    According to the report it dosent involve expensive surgery.

    "The method could be used on far more patients because the ball of cells that grows into a tooth also produces bone that anchors to the jaw"

    Could this actually be possible or is it just another case of far fetched tabloidism .

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/may/03/sciencenews.health


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  • #2
    btkm8unsl0w5r4
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    According to the report it dosent involve expensive surgery.

    New technology is rarely inexpensive.......

    Yeah this is totally possible, within 20 years I would say this will be routien.


  • #3
    omerin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭omerin


    op thats taken from

    The Guardian, Monday 3 May 2004 09.31 BST


    :confused:


  • #4
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    omerin wrote: »
    op thats taken from

    The Guardian, Monday 3 May 2004 09.31 BST


    :confused:
    First I heard of it. :)
    Jax Swift Gem wrote: »
    New technology is rarely inexpensive.......

    Yeah this is totally possible, within 20 years I would say this will be routien.

    Ill need a complete mouthfull by then :D


  • #5
    W.B. Yeats
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭W.B. Yeats


    This is being worked on quite seriously at the moment
    Its stem cell work so essentially like the work being done on restoring nerves, growing new organs etc. There was a lot of reporting done in the summer about growing new teeth in mice.
    There are a number of groups working on it- at least one in the UK is VC funded and seem only a small number of years away from commercialising


  • #6
    aidanki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭aidanki


    Jax Swift Gem wrote: »
    New technology is rarely inexpensive.......

    Yeah this is totally possible, within 20 years I would say this will be routien.

    like having a boob job


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