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(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
by 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 agoWhat's the current state of the art in terms of being able to regrow teeth/regenerate alveolar bone?
- heymijo 2y agoOne 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 agoFor 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 agoI have 4! At least on the one yanked a few years back. My dental surgeon was amused... and annoyed.
- lukeholder 2y agoDon’t ever tell a 2 wisdom teeth story: https://youtu.be/cRdjDTMSTtY?si=4Qz0OR6B8t2MG7E9 https://youtu.be/cRdjDTMSTtY?si=4Qz0OR6B8t2MG7E9