From "Reactivating Dormant Cells in the Retina Brings New Hope for Vision Regeneration" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871917: direct neuronal reprogramming (for retinal growth), Tissue NanoTransfection, Muller glia
> What share of U.S. children and adults have dental benefits?
> Dental benefits coverage varies by age. For children ages 2-18, 51.3 percent have private dental benefits, 38.5 percent have dental benefits through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and 10.3 percent do not have dental benefits. For adults ages 19-64, 59.0 percent have private dental benefits, 7.4 percent have dental benefits through Medicaid, and 33.6 percent do not have dental benefits. Source: Dental Benefits Coverage in the U.S.
FWIU, dental lasers cost from $4-40K per unit, per station in the office; and they may be tuned for specific applications or general purpose. There's a waveguide to guide the beam; and there are new waveguide methods for steering photon beams through opaque tissue (with e.g. dual beams).
"Scientists Have Discovered a Drug [Tideglusib] That Fixes Cavities and Regrows Teeth" (2017) that's already FDA approved for Alzheimer's but there are yet no clinical trials of it as a cavity fill??
https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-have-discovered-thi...
"TNT" out of Ohio State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue_nanotransfection ; direct (epithelial,) stroma reprogramming
Regenerative medicine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative_medicine
From https://www.ada.org/en/resources/research/health-policy-inst... :
> What share of U.S. children and adults have dental benefits?
> Dental benefits coverage varies by age. For children ages 2-18, 51.3 percent have private dental benefits, 38.5 percent have dental benefits through Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and 10.3 percent do not have dental benefits. For adults ages 19-64, 59.0 percent have private dental benefits, 7.4 percent have dental benefits through Medicaid, and 33.6 percent do not have dental benefits. Source: Dental Benefits Coverage in the U.S.
TIL about Dental lasers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_laser
What percentage of dentists offices have lasers in the United States? https://www.google.com/search?q=what+percentage+of+dentist+o...
FWIU, dental lasers cost from $4-40K per unit, per station in the office; and they may be tuned for specific applications or general purpose. There's a waveguide to guide the beam; and there are new waveguide methods for steering photon beams through opaque tissue (with e.g. dual beams).
"Scientists Have Discovered a Drug [Tideglusib] That Fixes Cavities and Regrows Teeth" (2017) that's already FDA approved for Alzheimer's but there are yet no clinical trials of it as a cavity fill?? https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-have-discovered-thi...
Tideglusib: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideglusib
Can teeth be grown in molds from e.g. stem cells, or nanotransfected tissue with/without a 3-d printed scaffold or [...]?
Dental care probably has direct returns in labor productivity?