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(wife is a dentist) To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force. The difference today is a trained pro

by evmar 2y ago

(wife is a dentist) To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force. The difference today is a trained professional knows the technique and has practiced it a lot. (And anesthetic.) Here's a random video of it from a quick search on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydv7aomV20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydv7aomV20

thangngoc89 2y ago
(I’m a dentist) To further expand on your comment, the alveolar bone is porous so we use pilers on the tooth to compress the alveolar bone, making a big enough hole for the whole tooth to come out in one piece. Molars have 2-3 roots so it is a lot of efforts. In difficult case, I would divide the tooth into sections to pull each root out.
- infinite8s 2y ago
  What's the current state of the art in terms of being able to regrow teeth/regenerate alveolar bone?
  - heymijo 2y ago
    One thing is using rapamycin for bone and soft tissue regrowth. The FDA recently approved a human study after previous research showed success in mice. https://dental.washington.edu/uw-periodontal-study-receives-fda-approval-for-anti-aging-drug-use/ https://dental.washington.edu/uw-periodontal-study-receives-...
  - namibj 2y ago
    For teeth? The https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7880588/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7880588/ Anti-USAG-1 serum. It's laboratory antibody serum from a specific human-sourced monoclonal cell line. Seems to work on all mammals (notably both nice and ferrets; I'm told their teeth system is widely different evolutionary and that humans are kinda in the middle). A human study should be ongoing on some children in Japan that for genetic reasons are missing a few adult teeth (never grew).
- b112 2y ago
  I have 4! At least on the one yanked a few years back. My dental surgeon was amused... and annoyed.
  - lukeholder 2y ago
    Don’t ever tell a 2 wisdom teeth story: https://youtu.be/cRdjDTMSTtY?si=4Qz0OR6B8t2MG7E9 https://youtu.be/cRdjDTMSTtY?si=4Qz0OR6B8t2MG7E9
chokma 2y ago
> To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force One time, my dentist told me "I can't get it out, I am going to fetch my dad to do it" when she had trouble removing a tooth. What followed was a not so fun experience in professionally applied dental violence. (Her father was also a dentist)

by evmar 2y ago

thangngoc89 2y ago

(I’m a dentist) To further expand on your comment, the alveolar bone is porous so we use pilers on the tooth to compress the alveolar bone, making a big enough hole for the whole tooth to come out in one piece. Molars have 2-3 roots so it is a lot of efforts. In difficult case, I would divide the tooth into sections to pull each root out.

infinite8s 2y ago
What's the current state of the art in terms of being able to regrow teeth/regenerate alveolar bone?
- heymijo 2y ago
  One thing is using rapamycin for bone and soft tissue regrowth. The FDA recently approved a human study after previous research showed success in mice. https://dental.washington.edu/uw-periodontal-study-receives-fda-approval-for-anti-aging-drug-use/ https://dental.washington.edu/uw-periodontal-study-receives-...
- namibj 2y ago
  For teeth? The https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7880588/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7880588/ Anti-USAG-1 serum. It's laboratory antibody serum from a specific human-sourced monoclonal cell line. Seems to work on all mammals (notably both nice and ferrets; I'm told their teeth system is widely different evolutionary and that humans are kinda in the middle). A human study should be ongoing on some children in Japan that for genetic reasons are missing a few adult teeth (never grew).
b112 2y ago
I have 4! At least on the one yanked a few years back. My dental surgeon was amused... and annoyed.
- lukeholder 2y ago
  Don’t ever tell a 2 wisdom teeth story: https://youtu.be/cRdjDTMSTtY?si=4Qz0OR6B8t2MG7E9 https://youtu.be/cRdjDTMSTtY?si=4Qz0OR6B8t2MG7E9

chokma 2y ago

> To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force One time, my dentist told me "I can't get it out, I am going to fetch my dad to do it" when she had trouble removing a tooth. What followed was a not so fun experience in professionally applied dental violence. (Her father was also a dentist)