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After successful animal trials, human trials to begin for tooth regrowth drug
(www.theregister.com)
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As I have had a really bad run of terrible dentist experiences, bridges are scary and implants are expensive, I'd really like this to work well, and be reasonably priced.
ETA Or, it could be my superhero origin story.
Likely prohibitively expensive, will take a long af time to reach wider markets and most likely never pass trials
All my predictions
Was my immediate thought when I first heard of this. It's gonna be so damn expensive.
@uriel238 @cyu Realistically, I can't see it being cheaper than implants, and will probably need lots of orthodontic treatment when the new tooth comes through.
I have an implant, with bone regeneration, and honestly, it's just a tooth. Even with the bone regeneration, my total time in the chair was probably less than 90 minutes.
And, bonus, I can't get toothache in it, and if it breaks, it's 2 weeks to replace it like nothing happened.
The only way I see this competing with implants if it's cheaper (honestly can't see that happening) or less hassle (again, seems unlikely).
Implants are that good, and they're gonna be hard to displace as the "gold standard" to replace missing teeth.
You're focusing on the above gum situation and not the underneath. Having a tooth that could grow and fill a void where an implant would not be successful is huge.
I had a really fantastic dentist. Spent some time kinda homeless/broken and now I have no clue where she went.