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Tooth Regeneration Coming Soon
Ponca City, We love you writes "For thousands of years, losing teeth has been a routine part of human aging. Now the Washington Post reports that researchers are close to growing important parts of teeth from stem cells, including creating a living root from scratch, perhaps within one year. According to Pamela Robey of the NIH. 'Dentists say, "Give me a root and I can put a crown on it."' In a few years dentists will treat periodontal disease with regeneration by using stem cells to create hard and soft tissue; they will take out a tooth that is about to fall, and reconnect it firmly to the regenerated tissue. Although nobody is predicting when it will be possible to grow teeth on demand, in adults, to replace missing ones, a common guess is five to ten years. Baby and wisdom teeth are sources of stem cells that could be 'banked' for future health needs, says Robey. 'When you think about it, the teeth children put under their pillows may end up being worth much more than the tooth fairy's going rate. Plus, if you still have your wisdom teeth, it's nice to know you're walking around with your own source of stem cells.'"
to me and I am a Christian who used to be against it. But if it can be proven to save lives and grow new bones and teeth, maybe even grow back limbs and eyes, it might be a miracle technology.
Stem cells need not be gotten from aborted babies but from adult cells like wisdom teeth, brilliant! I am sure even Jesus would approve of that. :)
Too bad I had my wisdom teeth taken out, they were impacting my molars. They looked like an octopus and the dentist/surgeon had a hard time pulling them out, and one was pulled out too late that it damaged one of my regular teeth and it had to come out too. Now my regular tooth that is gone, might be grown back in five or ten years in the future. Not that I miss it or anything, but 32 teeth is better than 31 teeth.
I just want to know if teeth can be hermetically sealed like in Star Trek so I can skip brushing them. I can't find any type of toothpaste that I don't gang and throw up on yet. I even gag and sometimes throw up when the dentist is just picking at my teeth.
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Food does not corrode your teeth. If you think you have parasites or any kind of bacteria corroding your teeth, try this to remove it. Don't gargle the substance, use a funnel. Because most parasites and bacteria can't eat fiber foods, they are only attracted to sugars and that's how they base their operations. Mix 1 teaspoon of sugar to 1 teaspoon of turpentine, let it anneal for about 5 minutes, then poor that into a glass-held 8-ounces of water. The sugar bonds to the turpentine and when most bacteria and parasites sense the appealing sugar they eat and the bond breaks where the turpentine kills it all off. You should have a bowl movement within an hour, and you might not like what you see. I don't recommend gargling with this because of more effective treatments for your mouth, but then again this was more effect for your intestines in this way.
Another way of getting turpentine is pine-tree (needle) tea. If you over-boil the needles and branch too long, you get turpentine and that's why the drink was so helpful (if not the ascorbic acid) for people since the beginning.
Great idea! Let's begin inoculating people with GM organisms, what could possibly go wrong? I mean, it's not like inoculations have led to increased autism...you might as well also deny the link between humans and climate change.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Just don't take the "issue" to an HMO, because they'll leave you penniless and toothless. A friend of mine back in Anaheim, California would regrow a mouthful of teeth every 2.5 to 3 years. They grew perfectly, which lends to the reasoning that tooth-growth is effected by what people put in their mouths. He never had any crooked teeth and he ate healthy. A visit to the HMO was where the pharmacy was about to prescribe him a retrovirus of theirs that would prevent his teeth from ever regrowing. Imagine that, an HMO allowing a custom-made virus to "correct" a beutiful smile. He declined and left California in absolute horror and rage.
I wouldn't be surprised if HIV/AIDS and all the new species of the embranced/over-extended FLU are military weapons to kill-off certain lines of genetics. I remember reading about some hookers in Sudan that had Immune Systems develop an immunity to HIV. The "american" pharmacies sent their doctors over to petition for an examination of the hookers. The corrupt, or shall we say "operating-as-usual" government used military force to coralle the hookers into some multi-cell labs where they were physically bound. After the experimentation concluded, they lost their ability to repel HIV/AIDS. Within 2 years, these 3 hookers were dead IIRC. Sounds like a Bio-Weapon to me, and you bet they kept detailed journals to the sophistory of enabling it to the newer reach of effectiveness.