• edric
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    201 month ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        1 month 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…

        Edit: it’s a joke.

        • skulblaka
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          1 month 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.

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

      • Tlaloc_Temporal
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        31 month ago

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

          • Tlaloc_Temporal
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            31 month 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 month ago

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

              Deadpool cosplay will be on a whole other level.

              • Tlaloc_Temporal
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                21 month ago

                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!

                  • Tlaloc_Temporal
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                    21 month ago

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

                    Zombie cosplay would get pretty impressive too.