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fireandice1000
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Supposedly in France a couple of years ago some scientists were able to get the equivalent of adult teeth to regrow in mice that had been genetically engineered to be born without teeth. Basically they used stem cells from the mice to grow teeth in them. I think this could be the wave of the future for dentistry; perhaps phobics may not need to be as worried as much. I don't think it's a farfetched idea at all; bone marrow transplants are basically the use of adult stem cells as treatment for leukemia, etc. Also, a couple of years ago a guy from the USA (Wisconsin I think) had tracheal cancer and was basically stuck on a respirator. They flew him out to Sweden where doctors and scientists there were able to use stem cells from the good tissues of his trachea and regrew him a new one in the lab then implanted it in him. He's doing great from what I last heard! That's not some story from some wacko site, it was in the New York Times and other newspapers.
In my opinion, I think that root canals/dentures/fillings and so forth will be gone within a generation. How's that sound?
In my opinion, I think that root canals/dentures/fillings and so forth will be gone within a generation. How's that sound?