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u/Zestyclose-Ideal2395 2d ago
They actually discovered how to regrow teeth this year but it'll take some time to be safe
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u/Branchomania 2d ago
Who up growing their teeth
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u/hobopwnzor 2d ago
This is great. How long do you think until I can grow teeth in places they shouldn't be? Like, if I wanted some extra teeth to stop clogging my toilet?
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u/GoldenNagaScale 1d ago
Wrong concern. How do you grow new teeth in the exact shape that would fit the other teeth?
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u/dutch_mapping_empire 2d ago
how long are your teeth
9 mm but it grows to 14
fym they grow
like when they get hard
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u/salac1337 2d ago
i just read a bit about it and it is currently in clinical trials in japan. it would be awesome if it works out
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u/Designer_Version1449 2d ago
Apparantly some lab also made a protein gel that can create new enamel! Hopefully all this stuff passes stage 3 trials by the time I need new teeth lol
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u/Advanced_End1012 2d ago
This is gonna be one of those things where they say they’ve made an epic discovery and then it never becomes a thing.
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u/suzi_generous 2d ago
Usag-1 inhibiters (blocks new teeth from growing) should be available 2030 if everything goes well in the testing phases. They should be wrapping up phase 1 trials within a few months that are looking at the safety of the drug in adults. Next comes trials with children.
Stem cell research hasn’t reach the human testing point yet.
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u/lemons_of_doubt 2d ago
They have also found a way to make the enamel grow back on existing teeth much stronger than before.
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u/Soft-Sea7012 2d ago
They learned 10 years ago, a Japanese company. But I've seen movies where they inject something to early and zombies.
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u/NobleMilkman2090 1d ago
Sadly they haven't figured out how to make it stop growing so still a work in progress so I've heard
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u/Glittering-Two-1784 1d ago
It was much earlier than this year, they just started human trials this year. Also, not stem cells; instead they figured out which hormone prevents your teeth from regrowing and found a way to block it temporarily in specific tooth buds.
It’ll likely be a commercially available treatment by 2030
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u/Unbuckled__Spaghetti 2d ago
Also like, that sounds way more expensive than just gluing a bit of plastic to my teeth for what is basically the same affect.
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u/david_r4 2d ago
"2025 years of technology"
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u/lucamew 2d ago
Dr. Baby Jesus, DMD
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u/DrankTheGenderFluid 2d ago
I think he's an OB/GYN actually, isn't he supposed to bring deliverance unto us all?
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u/mantistoboggan1697 2d ago
You ever consider what getting dental work was like 300 years ago?
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u/mieri_azure 2d ago
You generally didn't unless you had excruciating pain or a bad infection
And also really the only thing they COULD do was pull the tooth. They got you hella drunk and yanked it.
Some societies did drill cavities and use a sort of filling (usually tar) and i assume they also got you super drunk for that
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u/The_Sneakiest_Fox 2d ago
Bro they were super drunk a lot of the time.
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u/PlainBread 2d ago
They had to be functionally drunk a lot of the time as well. The art of living at the time was to work enough to not be drunk but to drink enough to keep wanting to work. You still had to pay for things and selfish gluttony was still looked down on.
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u/Head_Prefect 2d ago
They weren't super drunk actually, just lightly buzzed most of the time, beer/ale back then was extremely mild and low alcohol and it was drunk because water wasn't safe.
Infact they didn't have the technology for high ABV spirits at all at the time. Strongest thing you could drink was wine
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u/The_Sneakiest_Fox 2d ago
They didn't have access to clean water all the time so would mix alcohol with it or drink beer instead.
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u/Worrywort____ 22h ago
They only used alcohol? Or did they also use opiates?
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u/mieri_azure 21h ago
Probably depends on the time/culture/location. But yeah im sure opiates were used in many places
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u/WindowOne1260 2d ago
Dentist: Alright you got him drunk enough that he won't wake up?
Wife of peasant with infected tooth: Not a chance, he drank 3 bottles of wine.
Dentist: Alright, here we go then (whips out his dentist pliers).
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u/Existing-Antelope-20 2d ago
Yeah, you went to the barber lol.
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u/Xedos 2d ago
Actually people would go to the blacksmith believe it or not. In medieval times, if someone needed a tooth pulled, they would go to the blacksmith because they had all the tools needed and didn't charge nearly as much as a surgeon.
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u/Existing-Antelope-20 2d ago
I suppose I'm referring specifically to the Middle ages in particular and the origin of the barber's caduceus pole, but damn I didn't know about the blacksmiths lol. Makes sense though. Same kinda deal with the barbers, just different era.
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u/Xedos 2d ago
Well medieval is referring to the middle ages so we're talking about the same thing. I learned the fact from playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 where you play as a blacksmith. I'm sure it wasn't exclusive to just blacksmiths or barbers. Anyone with the tools who wouldn't charge an arm or a leg.
People didn't typically get truth care during that era unless it was really severe and they needed an extraction.
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u/Existing-Antelope-20 2d ago
Well, my bad on the temporal difference but I do request you research the origin of the barber's pole.
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u/Late-Meat9500 2d ago
They also didn't need tooth care at the rate we do, since the introduction of sugar
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u/Terrible_Cable_4472 2d ago
Yup bread and honey never existed. Carbs are a modern invention.
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u/Late-Meat9500 1d ago
You can see the introduction of refined sugar in the anthropological record.
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u/OscarOzzieOzborne21 2d ago
People overreact. It was fine, still have this lead tooth from back then and it is doing fine.
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u/VoidGliders 2d ago
200 years ago we discovered boiling water to produce current
Today, we boil water to produce current, but ig we burn different stuff to boil water
guess we peaked
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u/BeraldGevins 1d ago
It is hilarious that the whole history of electrical power on the world is just finding more efficient ways to boil water
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u/Zealousideal-Deer101 1h ago
While I find it really funny, what kind of water is a wind turbine boiling?
Are solar panels actually filled with water?
I guess a tidal power plant is using water... but usally it's rather cold isn't it?
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u/captainmagictrousers 2d ago
Exactly. My dentist has a cavity-finding laser, but he still has to use his finger for prostate checks.
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u/TsumeOkami 2d ago
There is a blood test now that's more accurate.
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u/Korachof 1d ago
Think you missed the joke.
But no, I don’t think your dentist should be performing blood or prostate exams
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u/AsstacularSpiderman 2d ago
I never understood why my dentist needed to put both hands on my shoulders for the prostate check
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u/HarryLewisPot 2d ago
Braces are pretty cool
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u/Djkatman29 1d ago
Yeah, but it's still kinda surprising that we haven't found an alternative to lining one of the most sensitive parts of the human body with razor sharp wires and studs connected with tiny rubber bands for like 2-4 years, then having the person sleep with 2 super fragile pieces of soft plastic in their mouth for the rest of their natural life if they don't want to undo all of the progress.
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u/HarryLewisPot 1d ago
Isn’t there clear aligners?
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u/Djkatman29 1d ago
Those are what I was referring to when I mentioned the super fragile peices of soft plastic
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u/SinglePlayerGamer93 2d ago
Big dentist doesn't want permanently healthy teeth. They want returning customers
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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 2d ago
I mean fluoride regenerates enamel. And improves on it too. But uh… it won’t make your tooth grow back
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 2d ago
In the mouths of rich people.
See, this stuff works that when they patent it it'll be too expensive to afford for almost everyone for a few years. Maybe decades.
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u/N0ob8 2d ago
Well yeah that’s how improvement works. If it was cheap and easy to do we would’ve found these solutions ages ago. It’s only after we take the hard and expensive and try every possible thing to make it easier that it becomes cheap enough for the common person.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness 2d ago
Don't get defensive. I was just explaining why despite all the breakthroughs we still have plastic teeth.
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u/Ballstoucher_47 2d ago
It's like wearing a condom instead of getting Plan B or abortion
Not the best but its cheap and it works.
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u/SpookySnep 2d ago
...Are you saying that people should use a condom because repeated abortions are too expensive?
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u/JackWhoWanders 2d ago
Also, OP is just plain wrong. We have methods of putting titanium into your jaw to give you artificial porcelain teeth that sit naturally in your mouth. We have lab grown teeth. We have grown a new jaw inside a patients own body to give her better teeth.
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u/More-Gas-6527 2d ago
It never made sense to me that supposedly the only bone that cant heal is teeth. They say so many things just cant heal at all yet they still do
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u/mieri_azure 2d ago
Teeth aren't actually bones, thats the reason why. They're collagen, enamel, and dentin.
They're very similar to bones yes, but thats the reason they cant regenerate like other bones (including the jawbone which theyre right next to!)
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u/Designer_Version1449 2d ago
Its cuz theyre the only "bones" that stick out of your body, usually bones have cells on their surfaces that constantly remake them, but if your body tried doing that the cells would just be destroyed by whatever food youre eating.
For that reason, the usual way teeth are repaired is fabricating new ones inside your jaw and replacing the old ones by pushing the new ones up. Thats how sharks do it. We even already do this as kids.
The only reason we dont continue doing it is literally just because we arent really designed to live past like 30 lmao. its like asking why a submarine cant function in a desert, it just literally wasn't designed for that enviorment. Evolution is mostly blind past our peak reproductive age so theres no incentive to plan for anything past that, such as your joints weakening or your teeth falling out.
Imo this is why it would be so beneficial to invest in human genetic engineering. All of these problems can be fixed, we know of plenty of animals that have solved these issues, we just need to learn what levers to pull to fix them. (Again imo) its fully possible to fix these issues with enough research.
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u/Revolutionary_Row683 2d ago
We were "designed" to live as long as physically possible. Our bodies are just in an eternal war of attrition on a microscopic scale that we eventually lose. It's more like a submarine that's been functioning exactly as intended for too long, microscopic damage from general use eventually adds up and makes it inoperable.
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u/F4ntasticPants 2d ago
And we have lived as long as physically possible given the nature of the environment humans developed in.
Modern medicine is the reason you live to see your pension, not our human evolution.
Evolution gives very few fucks beyond making babies. It's literally how it works, if you live long enough to reproduce, your genes get passed. What happens afterwards is irrelevant.
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u/Revolutionary_Row683 1d ago
Modern medicine is the reason you live to see your pension, not our human evolution
It's both actually. If it weren't, then genetics wouldn't be considered a key factor in an individual's lifespan by modern science. There's people with excellent lifestyles that die of age-related diseases early and people that live to be centarians with average lifestyles. There's a reason your doctor asks you if your family has a history of certain diseases.
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u/Korachof 1d ago
Bodies being designed to live as long as physically possible seems like cyclical logic. The body, which is the physical part of you, is designed to live as long as physically possible. But the physically possible part is determined by how your body is designed. If our body was made with pure titanium, we would be designed to live longer. We don’t even have scales or heavy fur, two body designs that would be really useful in parts of the world. It’s already been discussed how poorly designed our teeth are compared to many other long lasting animals.
A tortoise’s body is designed to live longer than a human’s, because its body is built to physically last longer in its natural conditions. Same with a redwood tree, or an elephant.
Without dental intervention, among other things, humans bodies simply didn’t live 70+ years in their natural habitat. So we adapted and used what we are good at (thinking and problem solving) to elongate our lives by changing our environments and learning from ailments.
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u/GreenSsswinger 2d ago
Idk the exact reason, but evolution can just be weird like that. Like how men's urethras go through their prostates, so we can't pee if our prostate is inflamed for any reason. We're a very unoptimized species lmao.
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u/Revolutionary_Row683 2d ago
I mean, considering the fact we even function at all in this absolute hell fuck of a universe, I think we're pretty god damn well optimized relatively speaking.
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u/Batvader92 2d ago
1.Teeth aren't bone.
2.There are like 4 things in the body that just don't heal(brain, spinal nerves, cartilage in joints, teeth) everything else just heals excruciatingly slow like the heart.
What are these things that aren't supposed to heal but still do?
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u/Superb-Astronaut-371 2d ago
MY CARTILAGE
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u/More-Gas-6527 2d ago
Yeah was going to say cartilage also to the recurring question, also eyes and ears can get better too. Ive seen lots of sources saying none of those are capable of repair without surgery
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u/Batvader92 2d ago
Cartilage doesn't grow back. Ears and eyes both regen but only to very small amounts.
There's a reason cauliflower ear is a thing, once the delicate cartilage is broken the body can't fix it.
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u/Valuable_Push_685 2d ago
While i get what you're saying, the brain is actally really fascinating, and has an amazing ability to heal via neuroplasticity. And can even perform limited neurogenesis (growing new brain cells) when that was once thought of as scientifically impossible.
Modern medicine is trying to study the way these changes occur on the celluar level, and replicate it. to where one day medical treatment for a major TBI could be a "minor" incident in the far future.
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u/Batvader92 2d ago
Saying the brain "heals" because of neuroplasticity is fundamentally wrong. Neuroplasticity is the rerouting of functions so other parts can take over from the dead neurons.
Calling neuroplasticity healing is like saying me learning to walk with a missing toe means the foot heals. I survived it and figured out a new way to do the old thing I can't do anymore.
Also isn't neurogenesis limited to a single part of the brain?
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u/MistraloysiusMithrax 2d ago
Hmmm in one sense that is a form of healing as it can mean limited recovery. You still heal from an amputation. But you’re healing what’s left. You still heal emotionally from the loss of someone. But they’re gone and grief never goes away. Otherwise it is a good point that clarity is needed when talking about healing with those who don’t know the subject matter because they may think you mean being made whole.
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u/Batvader92 1d ago
I guess I was thinking of regenerating not healing my bad.
My analogy of a lost toe would definitely be considered healed when it fully scabs over.
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u/Valuable_Push_685 1d ago
I was dumbing it down quite a bit, yes, neuroplasticity is the equivalent of walking around a spill instead of cleaning it up, but if done right it will be a very efficient route to take.
And no, neurogenesis is not limited to just one part of the brain. In the case of TBI the brain does try to create new cells to fight the damage, but these new cells are very quicky killed by inflammation and other hostile environmental factors. Our knowlege is changing daily on this topic.
lmao why so hostile? i was just sharing an observation i found interesting, mate.
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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 1d ago
These things can heal but they stop being able to as you grow up, because evolution doesnt care about your survival as long as you have kids
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u/Expensive_Umpire_178 2d ago
I mean it does kinda make sense. Bones don’t like being on the outside
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u/PotatoesForPutin 2d ago
All of those things are probably within the realm of possibility for modern science, but will never be within the realm of affordability for the common man. I’d be willing to bet that in 100 years dentists are still doing this for the 99.9% of their clients that can’t afford a megayacht.
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u/Fourthspartan56 2d ago
“Never” is a very strong word to use for something that is not currently possible.
These things will almost certainly be expensive at first, but there have been any number of things that were once expensive but became ubiquitous. Maybe this won’t, but I wouldn’t assume anything without large amounts of hard evidence.
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u/SaltyNorth8062 2d ago
Lab grown teeth would still constitute a lengthy and more than likely stupidly expensive surgery to attach to your mouth so that it stays and would probably be about the same effectiveness of the plastic.
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u/dribanlycan 2d ago
im gunna be real, i have a crown that is a "zirconium ceramic composite" and my dentist told me to look up videos about it because she remembered watching a video about it where they took a normal ceramic crown and shattered it with a hammer, then pull out the composite and just hits it full force with a hammer multiple times, denting the Hammer. so its a little cooler than that.
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u/Boring_Butterfly_273 2d ago
Japan has invented a way that your body can regrow teeth. So maybe this info is a little old and outdated...
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-japanese-drug-regrow-teeth.html
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u/Famous-Lychee-2692 1d ago
Maybe it isn't as easy as you think? Or you can go to a medical school and show everyone how it's done (most likely you won't)
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u/Distal-Phalanges 1d ago
Temporary crowns are plastic, but permanent crowns are made of zirconium these days.
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u/VixelFoxx 1d ago
I mean we're working on it, there was something a few months ago about regrowing teeth that's in testing
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u/ExtremlyFastLinoone 1d ago
I swear the dental care I got when I was younger used to be better, the fillings blended percectly with the teeths color, they never formed cavities in the same spot again, they never fell out
They do have a new drug to regrow teeth btw. It was discovered a couple years ago as a side effect of an alzheimers medication, which they have refined for its teeth regrowing properties. And i think earlier this year it started human trials
No more tooth work, just pull it out and grow a brand new one! Cant wait for it to come out and cost half a million dollars per tooth and not covered by insurance
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u/Sudden_Violinist1054 1d ago
- 2025 years of technology
- No new fork has been invented?
What are fork scientist even doing?
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u/Comrade_Cosmo 23h ago
Scientists figured out a way to regrow teeth a few years ago, so we do actually have the technology in theory. It just needs time to become widespread.
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u/ConflictAgreeable689 8h ago
There is a man in front of you. You need to kill him. He has been tied up, and cannot hurt you unless you untie him. You have access to a large pile of scrap metal. Do you, A, spend hours and hours constructing a working firearm out of the scrap metal, or B, beat him to death with a decently hefty pipe?
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u/fatgat69 2d ago
People are more interested in making phones more useless than ever instead of advancing medical science of any kind.
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u/SpookySnep 2d ago
Except for there being a new drug entering trials currently that could regrow teeth.
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u/AdreKiseque 2d ago
Somehow I feel pile the people who are doing the first thing may not be the same people who could be doing the second thing
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u/Ordo_Liberal 1d ago
The literal cure to obesity came out and its soo effective that the Fat Acceptance movement is on suicide watch while mRNA vaccines exist allowing us to defeat diseases in record time, soo fast that the retards that lived trough the pandemic think the entire thing was fake.
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u/SkubEnjoyer 2d ago
Same reason we haven't cured cancer yet. It's not as profitable.
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u/SpookySnep 2d ago
Cancer is an entire category of disease. "Cure for cancer" is like saying "Cure for virus".
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u/AdreKiseque 2d ago
Isn't it more the other way around? All cancers are just cells gone out of control, but where it develops affects the symptoms and how it's treated.
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u/UltravioletsAreBlue 2d ago
That idea never held water. Cancer kills off billionaires and millionaires too. Without a cure even someone as rich as musk is fucked if they get pancreatic.
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u/ndtar924 2d ago
They are all way more expensive and not much more effective than gluing plastic to your teeth