As someone with continual dental issues due to an unhealthy high sugar diet and low calcium due to lactose intolerance, I'll be super excited if this becomes a thing.
Take vitamin D, it increases your calcium absorption.
'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
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#12This is insanely cool, and I imagine there is no need for me to explain how useful this would be in comparison to the current dental approaches today. But is this technology ever going to be available to consumers? I remember reading about similar advancements almost three years ago and haven't heard anything related until now. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I think we won't see this in practice for a Very Long Time™.
You are not pessimistic. It's another one of those thing that have been only a few years away from commercialization for 20 years now.
This is happening so often, there must be a name or a law for that.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any reason you don't pop a daily calcium and vitamin D supplement?
Calcium supplements are distinctly distasteful to me, and that makes it hard to make a habit of taking it. :) The tablets generally taste like chalk. (Extremely literally.) And even the adult gummy variety are far worse than their multivitamin counterparts. It's really hard to make chalk taste good.
Can you get one you swallow without chewing? You'll probably have to take about 4 of them, but that might be easier for you.
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#14This is insanely cool, and I imagine there is no need for me to explain how useful this would be in comparison to the current dental approaches today. But is this technology ever going to be available to consumers? I remember reading about similar advancements almost three years ago and haven't heard anything related until now. Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I think we won't see this in practice for a Very Long Time™.
You are not pessimistic. It's another one of those thing that have been only a few years away from commercialization for 20 years now. This is happening so often, there must be a name or a law for that.
Pessimistically, that name is "Stagnation Hypothesis"
(edit, oops the term Peter Thiel/Tyler Cowen like is "Great Stagnation." See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_yJTCDU4uE)
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any reason you don't pop a daily calcium and vitamin D supplement?
Calcium supplements are distinctly distasteful to me, and that makes it hard to make a habit of taking it. :) The tablets generally taste like chalk. (Extremely literally.) And even the adult gummy variety are far worse than their multivitamin counterparts. It's really hard to make chalk taste good.
Chalk is calcium carbonate, and so are many calcium supplements. So, no surprise on the chalky taste. I'd say it actually goes best with milk, I guess because it tastes "natural". A lot of milk substitutes are palatable and have calcium added, or likewise it's possible to buy milk with the lactose removed.
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#16Let's hope there will be some real progress in dentistry. I am probably doing the field injustice but there doesn't seem to have happened much progress in the last decades compared to other areas of medicine. When something is wrong the usual response is to remove it, no healing.
I personally hope that one day we will be able to regrow teeth. With all my crowns it's too late to repair cavities.
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#17Fusion, cheap solar cells, and this.
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#18As someone with continual dental issues due to an unhealthy high sugar diet and low calcium due to lactose intolerance, I'll be super excited if this becomes a thing.
Try:
* Vitamin D3 + K2 (in its isoforms MK4 & 7) from food and synthetic
* Toothpastes with low RDA abrasion levels and without glycerine and silica
* Irrigate your teeth
* Take probiotics like Blis K12 bacteria
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#19As someone with continual dental issues due to an unhealthy high sugar diet and low calcium due to lactose intolerance, I'll be super excited if this becomes a thing.
If you want calcium from a dairy source, eat more hard cheese. Hard cheeses have very little lactose - just pick the one with the least sugar. Cheddar is pretty good. Parmesan too.
Re: 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
#20As someone with continual dental issues due to an unhealthy high sugar diet and low calcium due to lactose intolerance, I'll be super excited if this becomes a thing.
If you want calcium from a dairy source, eat more hard cheese. Hard cheeses have very little lactose - just pick the one with the least sugar. Cheddar is pretty good. Parmesan too.
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