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Re:New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise to... by toyg on Thursday November 06, 2025 @08:18AM (#45834900)
I think it's more that fixing teeth is largely about replicating a specific material with one-off procedures, whereas fixing hair is all about controlling a complex never-ending process that is linked to all sorts of factors.

Also, everyone has teeth issues, whereas hair issues are mostly limited to a subsection of the population (older males, and not even all of them).

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Re:New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise to... by sumedh on Friday November 07, 2025 @01:46AM (#45844100)
> subsection of the population (older males, and not even all of them)

Those men will pay lot of money to get back their hair though.

If I not mistaken it was Bill Gates who said more money is spent in hair regrowth research compared to vaccine to prevent diseases like malaria which kills thousand of people.

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