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Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks (newatlas.com)
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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physiology/articles/10.3389/fphys.2014.00036/full

It's been in the works for over ten years. Here is a paper on research into it from 2014.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3000521/

Here's another one from 2010.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1882761608000070#cesec60

And another from 2008.

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At this point it's a race between teeth, fusion and GTA 6. Place your bets, people.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I bet GTA 6, if only because those investors are going to be more bloodthirsty about it coming out eventually.

Teeth and fusion need approval to be safe from the...government...

I withdraw my bet.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

GTA6 is far more achievable. Like it doesn't even matter what they release, that would qualify. To get this out of the lab, it would have to actually work.

And fusion really isn't happening for decades.

[–] aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

thats how research works unfortunately

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago

Absolutely, which was my point. That the tooth thing wasn't "only two years ago" it's actually been in the research and development process for probably over 15 years at this point, with a long way to go.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The slow roll on this is disappointing. Bad teeth majorly impact quality and length of life.

Not to mention the escalating costs.It's a half trillion dollar industry, which is over $1500/year per American. And that's not counting dental surgery, orthodontics, etc.

https://www.ada.org/resources/research/health-policy-institute/dental-practice-research/economic-impact-of-dental-offices