I’ve been waiting for this for years. I’m about to do an implant, but I’m wondering if I should just wait. I wonder how much it will cost. It sounds like it shouldn’t cost much.
I’ve been waiting for this for years. I’m about to do an implant, but I’m wondering if I should just wait. I wonder how much it will cost. It sounds like it shouldn’t cost much.
Grow-a-replacement-tooth will be available the same year as the solid-state lithium electric car battery.
Also Fusion power will be available 🙂 .
That said it sounds like a nice idea in the abstract. I have one implant and it works very well. The process is about an 8.5 on the weird-stuff-o-meter. The oddest part is the implant itself. In essence the Dentist (well dental surgeon) installs the implant which uses what looks for all the world like a titanium wood screw. This is done with a tiny rachet wrench. The sound of a ratchet wrench being worked in your mouth is just bizarre. pain is limited to none, presuming it is being used to replace an existing root canal.
I have no problem with the implant procedure per se — I have had four. I just don’t like the cost.
There is a little town in Mexico called Los Algodones, just across the border from Yuma. Population is about five thousand.
There are 550 dentist offices in that town. The rest is prosthetics, pharmacies, optometrists etc. The town is bordered by Arizona, California, and a Mexican military base, completely cut off from the rest of Mexico.
I go there for all my dentistry. Even with flights and hotels etc it is still signicantly less expensive than dentistry in Canada. The work is top notch due to the competition. Highly recommended.
Think this is the 4th time I have shared this anecdote here but many years ago, there was a similar story about how researchers at one of the CA colleges were working on a way to help injured soldiers recover faster from bone injuries.
They came up with some kind of gel and tested it on teeth. They found it would regrow teeth. This was during the Obama years and haven’t seen anything about it since, for either teeth or bones. But there have been similar stories, so I have to dust off this anecdote from time to time.
Factor in the 10-year wait for FDA approval, along with the guaranteed stealthy back-stabbing and F.U.D. spread by those groups likely to have their rice bowl broken. Not to mention just those who love spreading F.U.D. for its own sake.
The procedure they’ve working on looks like it’s supposed to start the growth process on teeth that for congenital reasons didn’t develop. It seems a pretty big step to me from kickstarting an existing bud to creating a tooth from scratch.
I’ve thought about going to Ukraine for an implant because it comes out cheaper, including getting there and back. They have a “dental tourism” industry that gets a whole lot of traffic from Europe, and the customers swear by it. They use exactly the same implants we do, too, both brand and model. It just works out to be several hundred bucks instead of several thousand.
Still have all of mine, though a few are partial rebuilds. Hope to keep that status through the end of my run. But it would be nice if something actually comes of this Japanese research, though I have read similar “just around the corner” stories of this sort at least a couple of times over the last couple of decades. I’ve got to think the dental profession will not be too eager to see this, or any comparable, therapy become available.
What George T. had to say about Ukrainian dentistry I will certainly keep in mind should I ever require any actual replacements in the absence of any available regrowth therapy.