• k0e3@lemmy.ca
    14·
    1 天前

    I always giggle when I see this treatment mentioned because the gene they block (I think that’s how they explained it) is usag-1. Usagi in Japanese is rabbit, an animal known for their ever-growing teeth.

  • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
    21·
    1 天前

    If they don’t go the same way as implants

    I have a tooth that simply decided to check out (I think they called it internal resorption)

    My insurance only partly covered a bridge (a fake tooth glued to the others on each side) and said an implant was only for “aesthetics” and so wasn’t covered. So, according to them, the thing that looks like a real tooth, acts like a real tooth, get taken care of like a real tooth… the real “set it and forget it” solution…… was just for show!

    I could totally see them argue that regrowing a tooth is just a luxury…… 🤦‍♂️

    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 天前

      Implants are (to me) some lovectaftian horror shit. I’m missing a tooth between my incisor and my front teeth, and after reading about the implant procedure decided I’m fine being mistaken for a hockey player. Looks kinda tough

      • Baggie@lemmy.zip
        3·
        1 天前

        Had my 2 front ones done, full posts into my skull. Had to actually get them redone semi recently actually, just the teeth not the posts. I can tell you that while it is intimidating, I’m pretty happy with the results. Then again 2 front teeth is a pretty big difference. The cost was also fairly huge as well.

      • Tuxman@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 小时前

        A bridge is about 3500$

        An implant is about double that (6000-7000$)

        With the insurance I only paid 800$, but I would have been 100% on the hook for the implant

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 天前

    Little known fact. Hockey players start out able to read. The longer they play the sport their abilities just degrade.

      • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
        9·
        1 天前

        Definitely LLM… the “author” has 1624 posts since December 10, 2024. And all of the early ones are those stupid SEO-optimized “how to fix x” posts. (including one that’s literally about how to fix X/twitter lol).

        • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
          11·
          2 天前

          Some pictures are meant to be demonstrative and intentionally inaccurate for said demonstration.

          My assumption was that’s what they were going for.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      28·
      2 天前

      Same. I’m down to have all my teeth removed and let new ones grow in, to repair the gum-line corrosion from my early childhood that leaves me highly susceptible to cavities. I have more fillings than teeth at this point.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    2 天前

    I already had supernumerary teeth, so if I took this, I feel like I’d be a super hero. A bad one, but one nonetheless.

    • SparroHawc@piefed.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 天前

      You kid, but the reason we can regrow teeth like this is that we actually have the cells for a third row of teeth. Once these ones are gone, though, you don’t have any more back-ups.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPM
      7·
      2 天前

      I had a friend that said they had those, I never saw it though. I bet there are people who do, or they were fucking with me.

      • MrShankles@reddthat.com
        11·
        2 天前

        Nah, my sister had real messed up teeth when she was young, and the dentist referred to it as “shark mouth”. It wasn’t multiple rows, but several of her teeth had an extra tooth right behind it, leading to her mouth being pretty cluttered until they extracted the extras. Not nearly as extreme as an actual shark, but still a lotta teeth if you were able to see 'em

      • cowfodder@lemmy.world
        5·
        2 天前

        I had a couple of extras. Most were no big deal, but I had to have one extracted because it was blocking my adult tooth from coming in.

      • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
        10·
        2 天前

        What I’ve noticed is that most poor comma placement is because people forgot the leading one; “I like how someone , who is making fun of another’s literacy, did so with poor grammar.”

        It’s astoundingly common, including (especially) amongst publications.

        • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          2 天前

          I’m not sure I buy that. It’s not exactly a non-restrictive phrase in this case because the sentence “I like how someone did so with poor grammar.” does not seem like the original intent. You can shoehorn that argument I suppose, but it certainly just looks more like an errant comma.

          If I were to guess, I think OP thought they had an adverbial phrase (I think that’s the right term) that needed to be set apart with a comma, but, in actual fact, it both was not and did not.

          • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            2 天前

            (granted, you did mention that you could shoehorn this but) I don’t think a fragment of any sentence needs to have the sentence make sense if you remove the fragment; we jam fragments that are required to understand a sentence into all sorts of locations of sentences, all the time.

            The honest answer is that we don’t really have any hard rules about comma usage (as you point out, the sentence would work just as well without any commas), broadly, so people kind of just go vibes-based, most of the time.

            I feel like “did so with poor grammar” very obviously doesn’t feel like a tack on to a sentence (like, starting with a verb wouldn’t make sense) so I’m inclined to disagree but I’m anal about comma placement so maybe the average person would.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    15·
    2 天前

    Sweet. I lost a few molars in sports accidents and gincidents, so I’d love this. Maybe not the tiny Deadpool arm style of tooth part.

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 天前

      From what I can see, it effectively simulates the same thing that happens as a child, aka you lose you existing teeth for the new set, which means there’s always the risk they won’t come in properly, in the right angle… Sounds like a massive headache to replace a tooth of two.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        2 天前

        Really, do you have a link for that, or I can look for myself I guess. There is a link between male pattern baldness and androgen which is a male hormone, all the hormones are interconnected with each other on feedback loops, so it’s not entirely out of reason to think estrogen could prevent it or whatever.

        That said, baldness is hereditary, and it is passed from your mother’s father, as I was taught in school, and it has checked out everywhere I have looked into it.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 天前

          It’s DHT. Estrogen does prevent male pattern baldness and slightly reverses it, it’s a known thing for trans women. If you don’t think having your own pair of tits sounds rad as hell though you could just take finestride which is a dht blocker. Fair warning idk if dht does anything most men want, consult your doctor or at least search side effects if you’re more the “buy hormone blockers off the internet” type

        • Estiar@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 天前

          I myself have reversed some male pattern baldness, so I know it’s anecdotal, but it can be reversed somewhat. It’s mostly because my testosterone is suppressed by Spironolactone which is an anti-androgen rather than because I have estrogen in my body though.

          Finasteride targets that specific hormone though without affecting the rest of your testosterone as much though. If I were to recommend anything to you, finasteride is probably the way to go unless you want to be a girl, in which case I will never stop you. Hims is a good place to go for Finasteride

          Estrogen does have milder antiandrogenic effects though. Some trans people can go on only estrogen and keep the testosterone away

  • you_are_dust@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 天前

    What if something goes wrong and you just keep growing teeth? And you just have too many teeth. Then the teeth start growing in places where they shouldn’t.