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Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Re: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Post by mancerayder »

airhead969 wrote: post #335
Hamuko wrote: post #31

> In addition, the researchers are investigating a gel or solution with the engineered peptide to treat hypersensitive teeth. This problem results from weakness in the enamel that makes the underlying dentin and nerves more vulnerable to heat or cold. Most common products currently on the market can put a layer of organic material on the tooth and numb nerve endings with potassium nitrate, but the relief is only temp…

I had 1 cavity in my decades and I had really awful habits. All of my teeth were sealed in youth. I too have bruxism that is wearing down some molars severely. My grandfather wore his teeth down to about nothing. My dentist suggested I get Invisalign for tooth crowding, veneers for small canines, and a mouth guard I can't tolerate at present). If had a workable mouth guard, I would do this lozenge thing. I feel sensa…

My concern with Invisalign is you have to wear a nighttime retainer for life. I had a bad experience with stuff in my mouth at night, which made bruxism worse when it was supposed to be better. When my brain feels something in the mouth on the teeth, it induces the jaw to bite more when I'm sleeping.

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Post by jokethrowaway »

randycupertino wrote: post #238
eyelidlessness wrote: post #135

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It’s really astonishing how I know, intuitively, this is true but how weird people’s priorities are. Being honest: 1. I started balding at a relatively normal age (first signs late 20s). At first I welcomed it, then I got a little self conscious (and wished for greys instead, those are finally coming into my beard and I couldn’t be happier). 2. I’ve had dental health issues since childhood. My family couldn’t afford…

I had a patient who was GOING BLIND and had a chance to get in a vision trial or a hair transplant trial but couldn't do both. He chose the hair trial. Over his own sight!! I was really annoyed at him for a while because I had moved heaven and earth for him to help him screen into the highly competitive vision trial. But... his life, his choice. Even though he made a dumb one, imo.

It sounds like the hair transplant trial is much more feasible than fixing blindness.

Maybe he chose what he thought would work.

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Post by nickpp »

krageon wrote: post #347
nickpp wrote: post #344

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Do I really need to prove that you can starve with a million ideas in your head? That everyone around has countless ideas and it's impossible to know which ones can create value without spending time and money to try to develop them? I think the extraordinary claim is to pretend to know the value of an idea upfront. Very few people (Venture Capitalists, business investors, etc) try that and they fail more often than…

You're arguing a different point than everyone else, so it makes sense that things don't make sense to you.

That may very well be. I am arguing against GGGP's implied point that is an inherently bad move to sell an (unproven, untested, undeveloped) idea for $100k. My argument is sustained by the general accepted worldwide idea market value and the very observation that the idea owner, the one that must have been the best informed about said value of that idea, decided to sell.

In short, I am saying: "He must have known better than us dumb commenters on the Internet, we must respect his decision, he could've done a lot worse."

What point are you arguing?

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Post by etxm »

SoylentYellow wrote: post #192
etxm wrote: post #171

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Same. I’ve had two grafts in the same area (cadaver and auto) and neither of them held. What drives me wild is I floss twice a day, brush three times a day with the daintiest grip you’ve ever seen. Every time I go to the dentist, recession. Meanwhile my spouse brushes once a day, maybe flosses occasionally and has never had recession or a cavity.

I'm about to get a donor graft soon. Why didn't your's work out?

Not exactly sure. My current dentist said it’s rare for an autograft not to take, but it didn’t. He said my surgeon must have sucked.

Re: Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

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Post by nikodunk »

nextos wrote: post #312
nikodunk wrote: post #199

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Thank you so much for posting this! I’ve ground my teeth badly my whole life, it’s starting to get to the bad parts of my teeth and gums receding etc etc despite retainers, and I’ll definitely look into this! Yours, Guy at the end of his enamel

You may also want to check your neck posture. I've found that, in my case, using laptops invariably leads to bruxism due to poor ergonomics. Quitting laptops and using a proper desktop, or a laptop stand plus an external keyboard, was like toggling off the bruxism switch. It went off in a week. Plus, I stopped suffering from horrible migraines. In order to repair your enamel a bit and keep what you have you may want…

Hmm okay this is a great pointer too. I’ll look into it, thank you!

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Post by waste_monk »

INTPenis wrote: post #319
Hamuko wrote: post #31

> In addition, the researchers are investigating a gel or solution with the engineered peptide to treat hypersensitive teeth. This problem results from weakness in the enamel that makes the underlying dentin and nerves more vulnerable to heat or cold. Most common products currently on the market can put a layer of organic material on the tooth and numb nerve endings with potassium nitrate, but the relief is only temp…

>I've never had a cavity despite my poor dental hygiene habits and lack of dental practice visits How old are you? I was the same until 34 years of age, that's when I bit down on a peanutbutter brittle piece from haagen daazs ice cream and broke my first tooth. After that the visits just piled on. Now I have one root totally dug out and filled in, (root canal?) and one small hole filled in. I floss daily and brush da…

I had a similar story, broke a tooth eating something that had no right to break a tooth, ended up with a dental implant and half a mouthful of assorted fillings and two partial restorations (both near misses - the decay was nearly to the root, and if I had left it another month or so they would have needed root canals).

The worst part isn't even breaking the tooth or the resulting surgery, but rather it takes a year or more before things are back to normal with an implant (they backfill the extraction site with bone powder that acts as a scaffold to regrow the jaw and prevent sinking, which takes a minimum of six months, then they install the screw the implant attaches to and a temporary healing cap to protect the screw while it heals, and then wait another six or more months before the final implant can be installed).

PLEASE take dental health seriously!

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Post by znpy »

OJFord wrote: post #110
gabereiser wrote: post #45

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Haha, I was just going to say this. My 4 cup habit a day has destroyed any chance of having white teeth. They aren’t bad, but they aren’t white.

They aren't 'supposed' to be white; pure white teeth are bleached teeth, it's not natural. (I suppose truly natural is also unhealthy, but my point is perfectly healthy teeth can be - and are , without other non-health-improving intervention - less than pure white.)

indeed. just look at any random cat or dog teeth and they're going to be clean but mostly not "pure white".
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