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Clinical trial set to begin in Japan for medicine to help grow teeth
(www.japantimes.co.jp)
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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
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Given the average quality of science reporting and the lack of actual journal articles, it might be the same thing with a misunderstanding in either the earlier article or this one.
science reporting is awesome, I love when people start pushing random BS because they decided they needed to "dumb it down" because they themselves were too dumb to get it in the first place
Well that's what happened with this article. Their little mention of growing teeth lost from cavities is complete hyperbole. This treatment suppresses a protein found in the less than 1% of people who have congenital anodontia. It can't be used at all to help grow teeth for anyone else.
Oh man. It seems the only misunderstanding is that no one else in here understands the article or what congenital anodontia actually is. So what I had initially stated, and per this article, it won't help 99% of people.
How do we not understand the article? If the article is full of bull, that's another story
The context and explanation of everything else in the article in everything but that one cavity paragraph explains what it can treat and how it does it. Then that one paragraph says it may be used. In full context of the entire article (which is trash) it can be interpreted as not really for cavity missing teeth.