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.
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.