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'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

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Re: 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

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Post by shoover »

stplsd wrote: post #80
kalleboo wrote: post #59

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Most of Europe and Japan doesn't fluoridate their water and they don't have notably worse dental outcomes. It really has to do with toothbrushing and diet. Water fluoridation is just a way to get to the people who refuse to brush their teeth.

I think genetics have a part too. My grandmother was deported to Siberia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Lithu... ) for 20 years where they have 200 grams of bread a day at best and never brushed her teeth in her life and never had a tooth filling or missing tooth before her retirement, and I have half my teeth missing and I am only 30 years old. Fuck my life.

I was astounded when Viktor Frankl reported the same thing in Man's Search For Meaning, observed in his time in a Nazi concentration camp. Your grandmother may well have superior dental genes, but there is something unique about that bread diet and camp/deportation life, too. Sorry to hear about your teeth.

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Post by simonh »

adrianN wrote: post #116
raquo wrote: post #106

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Well, sleep and cruise ships don't destroy and copy your body. Teleportation would be equivalent to being killed the way I see it, until we get a better understanding of conscience at least.

Your body slowly replaces itself. I'm reasonably sure that when you die you have replaced almost all of its atoms at least once.

I've been using the same broom for 20 years! Never needed a new one and I'd never think of getting a new one. Of course I've replaced the handle twice and the brush four or five times.

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Post by majewsky »

nether wrote: post #66

Serious question: is there any evidence that seemingly disruptive dental treatments like this are being suppressed by the dental industry?

There are a few reasons more likely (and less asinine) than that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom%27s_law

Re: 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

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Post by majewsky »

awqrre wrote: post #89

that would be a dream come true... most (all?) dentists are doing unnecessary x-rays that are a health hazard and this would of course help with that...

Just yesterday I saw a documentary on the dangers of atomic radiation, and one of the numbers I remember is that the dose of radiation from a dental x-ray is less than the average daily dose of background radiation. So, entirely negligible unless you're getting a dental x-ray every week or more often.

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Post by [deleted] »

cowsandmilk wrote: post #45

Does anyone have good resources on non-behavioral factors that affect health of teeth? Growing up, I never brushed and did pretty much everything a dentist advises against. I never have had a cavity. With seemingly no consequences, it was extremely hard for me to find any motivation to change my behavior. I've often wondered whether there was something genetic, and today I wonder if maybe I won some microbiome lotter…

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Re: 'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings

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Post by awqrre »

majewsky wrote: post #154
awqrre wrote: post #89

that would be a dream come true... most (all?) dentists are doing unnecessary x-rays that are a health hazard and this would of course help with that...

Just yesterday I saw a documentary on the dangers of atomic radiation, and one of the numbers I remember is that the dose of radiation from a dental x-ray is less than the average daily dose of background radiation. So, entirely negligible unless you're getting a dental x-ray every week or more often.

You are probably talking about the low radiation bite-wing digital x-rays... But some type of dental X-rays have orders of magnitude more radiations, like the Panoramic X-rays (those are very common in dental offices) or the much worst Cone-beam computed tomography (3D). I agree that there probably isn't much risk but they give them out like candies.

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Post by nkozyra »

kalleboo wrote: post #139
Johnythree wrote: post #112

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You are completely missing the point. Many areas already have sufficient fluoride. It depends on the natural amount of fluorine in the water, if there's sufficient, then it's fine. It's only in the relatively few areas where there is a deficiency that it's a problem. And of course it also depends on diet. Offsetting your claim are studies which show that where people exclusively drink rain water, there is a higher in…

The countries that don't fluoridate their water don't have minimum levels of fluoride required. Whereas they have maximum levels of fluoride contamination allowed. I'm not one of those "fluoridation is a government plot to make everyone pliable" crazies. Just saying that it's far, far more important to BRUSH YOUR TEETH than to have a fluoridated water supply. Just seems to me like water fluoridation is just one of th…

> The countries that don't fluoridate their water don't have minimum levels of fluoride required.

I think the point is that fluoridation is often unnecessary because of the natural amount of fluoride in the water.

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Post by zo1 »

manuelflara wrote: post #132
neverminder wrote: post #103

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Exactly. What if there's a bug and when your "copy" is created at destination original is not destroyed? Would you agree to be killed, should your copy agree instead? Even worse, what if there's an anomaly in transporting data, original is destroyed and copy emerges disfigured, dead or something in between? Teleportation scares the shit out of me.

This reminds me of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige.

In case anyone isn't aware, you've just read a spoiler.

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Post by soylentcola »

adrianN wrote: post #116
raquo wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, sleep and cruise ships don't destroy and copy your body. Teleportation would be equivalent to being killed the way I see it, until we get a better understanding of conscience at least.

Your body slowly replaces itself. I'm reasonably sure that when you die you have replaced almost all of its atoms at least once.

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