Bone grows in behind it.
Comment on Toddler teeth
scytale@lemm.ee 2 years ago
What happens to the spaces the adult teeth take up once they get out?
the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 2 years ago
abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I don’t understand, why would they get “blocked by an instance filter for hexbear.net”? That doesn’t even seem relevant to the question…
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
The poster you are replying to is a hexbear user, you have filtered out content from hexbear. This is a kludgy way to implement that but it beats having to read most of their content.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 year ago
That’s worth quite a lot, tbh.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This is two days old a comment, but I literally just copy pasted your comment into google, and apologies for linking deddit, but it used to have quality answers.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Man, I wish new teeth would grow there. Just get a new set every decade or so.
Dasus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This is the first result with “growing new teeth”
dentalproductsreport.com/…/how-far-are-we-from-re…
We’re not there yet, but it doesn’t seem too far off. Definitely not scifi to say this will be possible within our lifetimes.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Cool. Growing new teeth in a lab for later installation(?) is probably something were close to, but I’m not so sure about the drug for starting tooth growth in living humans. It’s one thing to activate stem cells, and another to integrate that growth in tissue not designed for new growth. The clinical mishaps are going to be equal parts hilarious and terrifying.
I do wonder how easily it’s going to be to integrate new growth in general though. Like, how much the body will automatically link things together. We might get limb and organ regrowth around the same time.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 2 years ago
It calcifies and turns into bone