Clinical trial set to begin in Japan for medicine to help grow teeth
Clinical trial set to begin in Japan for medicine to help grow teeth
The researchers will conduct trials for teething medicine, aimed at treating people with congenital anodontia who are born with few teeth.
A team of researchers in Kansai is set to begin clinical trials next month to develop medicine to help grow teeth.
The researchers, including from Kitano Hospital and Kyoto University Hospital, will conduct trials for teething medicine, aimed at treating people with congenital anodontia who are born with few teeth.
To check its safety, the experimental drug will first be administered to adult men who have lost back teeth, before it is tested on children with congenital anodontia. The team aims to put the treatment into practical use in around 2030.
One of the most exciting developments in recent times
Not actually. This doesn't do anything for most normal people. It's for people who didn't properly have a normal 2nd set of teeth. So if you just had your "adult" set of teeth go bad, this won't help you.
*After doing a little more research, my above statement is correct. This drug only inhibits the protein that people with congenital anodontia have, so those people are able to start growing teeth. Less than 1% of people have congenital anodontia.
The little mention in the article about it leading to growing teeth in people who have lost them due to cavities (as the person with all the upvotes that replied to me here) is complete hyperbole in the article. This protein suppression medication can't work on someone with a normal protein. It was just mentioned as fluff to get more press about "future possibilities".
There are two possibilities, and both are pretty fucking gnarly.
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They grow teeth normally, giving millions of people the ability to eat solid foods again.
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Teeth begin growing like cancer all over your body giving you an impenetrable shell of armor.
Or something like this.
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This won't be used to add teeth to things that shouldn't have them.
Vagina dentata
Ah, Jennifer. I remember her well.
This doesn't seem like fun science.
Alright, we have a new plot for some Anime.
All I can imagine is someone in a lab tripping while carrying a tray of the stuff, spilling the tooth generation potion all over themselves.
It's intravenous, so they'd have to be carrying a lot of syringes too.