Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells in dental pulp

Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by fractallyte on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:10PM (#16284777)

Just one thing you should be sure to check: how the crown reacts to UV light. Real teeth fluoresce!

Unfortunately, a surprising number of manufacturers don't take this into account when formulating ceramics for crowns.

It's quite disconcerting to find yourself in a night club, unable to smile or talk properly because of the huge black gap in your teeth...

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by vinceguidry on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:18PM (#16284883)

Well, I didn't need another reason to never go into a night club, but there you have it!

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by jstanley on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:53PM (#16285255)

How interesting. I just tried this, and you're right!

I don't think it's a huge deal though. I have had my false tooth for nearly 5 years and never found out it looks different under UV until now.

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by electricslpnsld on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:30PM (#16285028)

> Just one thing you should be sure to check: how the crown reacts to UV light. Real teeth fluoresce!

Sounds like a cool way to embed secret messages on your teeth.

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by proactivesvcs on Thursday February 01, 2018 @04:30PM (#16286087)

But with Morse that'll leave us fewer characters than a tweet does!

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by electricslpnsld on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:59PM (#16288532)

32 teeth, one bit per tooth, that gives us 4 ASCII characters to work with.

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by JetSpiegel on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:20AM (#16289208)

Works for FUCK and not much else.

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by Vinnl on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:27AM (#16289413)

Works for six of the seven words you just posted :)

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Re:Boosting teeth’s healing ability by mobilizing stem cells... by IntronExon on Thursday February 01, 2018 @02:40PM (#16285121)

To mimic that effect until late in the 20th century dentures contained added uranium. Sadly sometimes they would fluoresce in green or yellow.

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