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Toddler teeth (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

iirc those are skulls of someone with some disease, not toddler skulls

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like too few people truly grasps the body horror of teeth. Those fuckers are terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

bones are supposed to be wrapped in meat and skin. not poking through! that's normally the sign of a terrible injury.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

commiserating..

Say it ain't so, I will not go

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Turn the lights off, carry me home

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

The adult teeth are covered by a layer of bone (which has been removed to see inside in the pictures here)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Commiserating

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What happens to the spaces the adult teeth take up once they get out?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is two days old a comment, but I literally just copy pasted your comment into google, clicked on the first thing, and apologies for linking deddit, but it used to have quality answers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/68lVMvCyB0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Man, I wish new teeth would grow there. Just get a new set every decade or so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is the first result with "growing new teeth"

https://www.dentalproductsreport.com/view/how-far-are-we-from-regrowing-teeth-and-what-are-the-other-options-

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We might get limb and organ regrowth around the same time.

Deadpool cosplay will be on a whole other level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

War reenactments and swordfighting will be even cooler I bet. Incredibly traumatizing by our standards and even more likely to trigger PTSD, but imagine the strategy around actual limb damage and pain in fencing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but imagine the strategy around actual limb damage and pain in fencing!

I'm imagining something like this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh no, they'd totally do that wouldn't they!

Zombie cosplay would get pretty impressive too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Bone grows in behind them.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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...

Edit: it's a joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

For what it's worth, this particular comment is polite and simply states that bone grows in to the spaces left behind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's worth quite a lot, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is how they figured out that Cathagians performed sacrifices of their own children

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Okay, that's enough Lemmy for me today.