I always giggle when I see this treatment mentioned because the gene they block (I think that's how they explained it) is usag-1. Usagi in Japanese is rabbit, an animal known for their ever-growing teeth.
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If they don’t go the same way as implants
I have a tooth that simply decided to check out (I think they called it internal resorption)
My insurance only partly covered a bridge (a fake tooth glued to the others on each side) and said an implant was only for "aesthetics" and so wasn’t covered. So, according to them, the thing that looks like a real tooth, acts like a real tooth, get taken care of like a real tooth… the real "set it and forget it" solution….. was just for show!
I could totally see them argue that regrowing a tooth is just a luxury….. 🤦♂️
Insurance company CEOs' limbs should be considered "aesthetics".
Implants are (to me) some lovectaftian horror shit. I'm missing a tooth between my incisor and my front teeth, and after reading about the implant procedure decided I'm fine being mistaken for a hockey player. Looks kinda tough
Had my 2 front ones done, full posts into my skull. Had to actually get them redone semi recently actually, just the teeth not the posts. I can tell you that while it is intimidating, I'm pretty happy with the results. Then again 2 front teeth is a pretty big difference. The cost was also fairly huge as well.
How much is it without insurance?
A bridge is about 3500$
An implant is about double that (6000-7000$)
With the insurance I only paid 800$, but I would have been 100% on the hook for the implant
Dental insurance is a scam
1000 bucks a year take it or leave it. We don't cover anything more then 50% and 80% if we are feeling kind.
The avg cost of any procedure is like 7264859262 dollars. So you need at least 5 dental plans to cover even half of anything!
Little known fact. Hockey players start out able to read. The longer they play the sport their abilities just degrade.
Apparently, it really is a thing: https://techfixated.com/human-trials-begin-for-drug-that-could-let-adults-regrow-teeth-for-the-first-time/
Interesting, but the article also feels llm-generated.
Definitely LLM... the "author" has 1624 posts since December 10, 2024. And all of the early ones are those stupid SEO-optimized "how to fix x" posts. (including one that's literally about how to fix X/twitter lol).
Pretty sure the photo would be. Teeth grow inside the gums....
Some pictures are meant to be demonstrative and intentionally inaccurate for said demonstration.
My assumption was that's what they were going for.
speaking around a robot's metal cock voice
I already had supernumerary teeth, so if I took this, I feel like I’d be a super hero. A bad one, but one nonetheless.
When hair?..
You want hair in your mouth? /s
Does that mean we can now get multiple rows like a shark?
You kid, but the reason we can regrow teeth like this is that we actually have the cells for a third row of teeth. Once these ones are gone, though, you don't have any more back-ups.
See, that’s the sort of forward-thinking that I want from everyone.
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Sweet. I lost a few molars in sports accidents and gincidents, so I'd love this. Maybe not the tiny Deadpool arm style of tooth part.
I like how someone who is making fun of another's literacy, did so with poor grammar.
You don't need that comma, bro.
What I've noticed is that most poor comma placement is because people forgot the leading one; "I like how someone , who is making fun of another’s literacy, did so with poor grammar."
It's astoundingly common, including (especially) amongst publications.
I'm not sure I buy that. It's not exactly a non-restrictive phrase in this case because the sentence "I like how someone did so with poor grammar." does not seem like the original intent. You can shoehorn that argument I suppose, but it certainly just looks more like an errant comma.
If I were to guess, I think OP thought they had an adverbial phrase (I think that's the right term) that needed to be set apart with a comma, but, in actual fact, it both was not and did not.
(granted, you did mention that you could shoehorn this but) I don't think a fragment of any sentence needs to have the sentence make sense if you remove the fragment; we jam fragments that are required to understand a sentence into all sorts of locations of sentences, all the time.
The honest answer is that we don't really have any hard rules about comma usage (as you point out, the sentence would work just as well without any commas), broadly, so people kind of just go vibes-based, most of the time.
I feel like "did so with poor grammar" very obviously doesn't feel like a tack on to a sentence (like, starting with a verb wouldn't make sense) so I'm inclined to disagree but I'm anal about comma placement so maybe the average person would.
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