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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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A team of researchers in Kansai is set to begin clinical trials next month to develop medicine to help grow teeth.

The researchers, including from Kitano Hospital and Kyoto University Hospital, will conduct trials for teething medicine, aimed at treating people with congenital anodontia who are born with few teeth.

To check its safety, the experimental drug will first be administered to adult men who have lost back teeth, before it is tested on children with congenital anodontia. The team aims to put the treatment into practical use in around 2030.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My bad. I guess this is a completely different thing from one I read about around 6 months ago, then.

*Nevermind. This is the same thing and everyone else in here is mistaken. Go read any other articles about this. The medication suppresses a protein that people with congenital anodontia have, and that is what makes them start growing teeth. Normal people do not have that protein issue, so the drug can't help.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] orrk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The treatment may be applied in the future to people who have permanently lost teeth due to cavities and other problems.

How do we not understand the article? If the article is full of bull, that's another story

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

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.