I’m surprised that mammals evolved to not regrow teeth. You’d think it would be a significant advantage.
I wouldn’t imagine it’d play a role in reproducing though. It may help ones ability to live longer, but they have probably procreated long before tooth loss has become a major issue of well being or mortality.
It’s also only recently that we’ve been living for so long.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/longevity-throughout-history-2224054#toc-prehistoric-life-expectancy
this is misleading, the article starts by saying that life expectancy was 30-35 but then goes on to say that this is the average lifespan, which includes the fact that most people died in childhood.
When accounting for that, the average lifespan becomes at least 50 years old.
They last long enough if you only live to 35.
can we maybe not propagate misinformation? it was perfectly normal for hunter-gatherers to reach at least 50 years old, and if you think about it for a bit it makes sense that the age where we start to fall apart is about the oldest that people got to in the past, which is around 50-60 yrs.
the average lifespan in the past was something like 35, but that’s because tons of people died early on, which remained true up until the invention of modern medicine which was like 100 years ago and doesn’t really have anything to do with your diet.
Ah, my mistake. I was using the average age. Thanks.
There didn’t used to be multivitamins. The broad spectrum of hominid diets never guaranteed you’d get enough trace minerals and elements to keep growing more teeth and there wasn’t evolutionary pressure to do so when you’re like five to ten years into your adult teeth when puberty hits.
Or at least space them out a bit. You get one set for the first 5-10 years, and then the second set has to last you the remaining 60-70.
Getting a new set at like 35-40 seems like a more sensible system to me.
Gotta be awkward at the office when Dave starts losing his baby teeth and has his midlife crisis at the same time
mammal teeth work pretty well as long you don’t eat too much sugar and acids.
Anthropologists can look at a pile of skeletons and tell if it’s before or after processed sugar.
It’s our modern diet of refined sugar and plenty more that harms teeth
It’s somewhat within our control to do something about it
The redundancy is already there since we have 32 teeth to begin with. If you lose one or two it’s not really a big deal.
And there’s a fine line between helpful regrowth and cancer. the more regrowth there is, the more likelihood there is of cancer.
How close are we to growing teeth ANYWHERE we want on the body?
No more poop knife, you just bite it off.
Hazardous information warning
You already have taste buds there anyways
Vagina dentata
You know it CAN be true someday
Imagine getting new teeth but all of them are wisdom teeth.
Evolving to eat only salad
New dentally enforced diet.
finally
vegan eugenics
Ok but hear me out, what happens if you inject it into your feet?
If you don’t want to sleep in the next couple days, search for “Teratoma”
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I’ve been wanting that since 1994. Jawsome!
Probably be prohibitively expensive for anyone to do it as an elective procedure.
When I was young I was Tough and Ruthless. Now that I am old I am Rough and Toothless.
I hope they figure out how to 3d print gum tissue. Harvesting donor tissue from the roof of your mouth certainly works, but is probably the worst part of the recovery.
Seems like it should be doable. But I doubt it’s high on the list compared to kidneys, livers, etc.
Can’t quite place my tooth on why, but I get the feeling this might be one of those AI generated pics I hear so much about
Jesus that makes me uncomfortable
I wonder what it would do for those of us who have had dental implants.
I had a tooth removed and replaced with a socket bone grafted into my skull to which a crown is bolted. If I were to lose another tooth, what would happen if I took this drug?
Plop!
I think that would be the last of very many relevant sounds. Many others would be screams.
That’s really cool and exciting. But guys, I need to regrow my gums. I have a perfectly good tooth that a dentist is considering removing because the gum lose around it is profound.
Imagine junkies of this drug would look like tarkatans.
Dentata the movie in real life
