• LughOPMA
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    4 个月前

    Corresponding author of the paper Dr Ana Angelova Volponi, King’s College London, said: “As the field progresses, the integration of such innovative techniques holds the potential to revolutionise dental care, offering sustainable and effective solutions for tooth repair and regeneration.

    Growing a tooth is one thing, I wonder how hard integrating it into a mouth will be. These teeth need to integrate with nerves and blood vessels.

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      The article said placing the cells in the mouth then prompting growth was a possibility. I’m not a dentist or MD but I would think this is the most sensible option? Would love to hear from professionals, itt.

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      Seems extremely difficult task to connect everything, so they should start just connecting the blood vessels and not connect the nerves at first (or maybe do something else entirely … i see this is London, U.K., … well, they probably have some issues in health care and prevention … i do not know much).