World-leading research is taking place into this field at King’s College London, where scientists have explored lab-grown teeth for more than a decade.
Yep, I first read about this more than a decade ago so that tracks. Probably a decade or three more before it’s really viable as a solution.
Yeah, the optimistic people in the field might have the rosy outlook to say in about a decade currently, but they’ll usually kinda start mumbling if you try to pin them down on it.
Only person I know that’s keeping up with the various attempts to regrow or replace teeth as a professional has said we might see the very first wave of it around maybe 2040ish, if everything goes well, with early trials sometime after 2030ish. And even getting them to be that predictive was with the promise to never quote them by name because “there are so many steps between what’s going on and human trials that could fail or go wrong, shit is still science fiction to me”
Yep, I first read about this more than a decade ago so that tracks. Probably a decade or three more before it’s really viable as a solution.
Yeah, the optimistic people in the field might have the rosy outlook to say in about a decade currently, but they’ll usually kinda start mumbling if you try to pin them down on it.
Only person I know that’s keeping up with the various attempts to regrow or replace teeth as a professional has said we might see the very first wave of it around maybe 2040ish, if everything goes well, with early trials sometime after 2030ish. And even getting them to be that predictive was with the promise to never quote them by name because “there are so many steps between what’s going on and human trials that could fail or go wrong, shit is still science fiction to me”