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frigg
08/05/09

In reply to Forget Dentures, With This Tech You Could Grow New Teeth in Fifty Days
As long as they're gonna grow an extra tooth in its mouth, why not grow a row of teeth along its back, so it would look like a little mousey stegosaurus? Even if you're a mouse, you know the difference between toothy and badass.
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webbehr
08/05/09

@frigg: Not an extra tooth, a replacement for a lost tooth.
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RedEye
08/05/09

In reply to Forget Dentures, With This Tech You Could Grow New Teeth in Fifty Days
I am still holding out for the day they can do this with hair... :(
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(Zombie) Goldwings
08/05/09

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Hurray!
Buh-buy braces and hello wrench. Teeth, I'd like you to meet wrench.
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wait, wait, wait. That's a terrible idea D:
A baseball bat should do the trick.
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chrishannan
08/05/09

In reply to Forget Dentures, With This Tech You Could Grow New Teeth in Fifty Days
So someone with really crooked teeth, instead of wearing braces for years, could just knock their teeth out and have new, straight, green ones grow back in two months? :D
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
08/04/09

In reply to Forget Dentures, With This Tech You Could Grow New Teeth in Fifty Days

You're wrong Rosa. Some of just want a regular mouth of teeth so we can feel normal when we smile and don't have to worry what a girl thinks when she kisses you and feels/tastes a hunk of plastic
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Rosa Golijan
08/05/09

@GitEmSteveDave_NowDoesSurnames: Freakin' hell. First I look at the front page to be greeted by a picture of a creepy fossilized spider, now this? I should've stayed in bed where it's safe.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
08/05/09

@Rosa Golijan: You see, that's the reaction I usually get. No wonder my confidence is low. This is why I try not to look into mirrors.
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iwuzbord
08/04/09

In reply to Forget Dentures, With This Tech You Could Grow New Teeth in Fifty Days
the main question that arises after hearing about something like this is about the real life advantages. from what i see, the main advantages in using something like this over dentures would be the fact that it would be a real tooth, cleaning would be easier, and the teeth wont fall out.
but on the downside, the tooth/teeth wont be as sterile as a denture, hopefully, the embryo that these cells are being taken from doesn't suffer from the process, and with dentures being obsolete, we will be deprived of the funny videos of people losing their dentures while eating...
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Avizzv92
08/04/09

In reply to Forget Dentures, With This Tech You Could Grow New Teeth in Fifty Days
They will make a fortune in West Virginia.
Unfair Stereotype?
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MacAttack7388
08/04/09

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They had to take it from embryos?
Great, they've invented something the republicans and Bible thumpers won't let us use for another 50 years.
Excuse me if I'm not as enthusiastic as I should be.
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bosskev
08/04/09

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What a heartwarming story! In these days where all we ever hear about is how laboratories torture and maim animals in the name of science, here they instead went out of their way to find some poor little mouse with a missing molar and then lent him a comforting, helping hand. Way to go, science!

Kinda brings a tear to my eye.

*sniff*

Of course, how they ever noticed this little guy was missing a rear tooth in the first place is kinda odd...
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met2art
08/04/09

@bosskev: Well, putting teeth on a mouse isn't exactly groundbreaking...
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bosskev
08/04/09

@met2art: That's...more...than a little disturbing.

Thanks!
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Reil: Save Stars, Save Peach
08/04/09

@met2art: Wait, what? TOES! WITH TEETH! WHO THINKS OF THIS?
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Name of Numbers
08/05/09

@bosskev: I will state the obvious: the knocked it out.
The fuckers.
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bosskev
08/05/09

@Name of Numbers: No. I'm sure they wouldn't do that. I mean, who could be that cruel?

No, they no doubt spent many weeks in open casting calls across the country, searching for that one lucky mouse with a missing tooth.
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Bigbadbikernerd
08/04/09

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Damn! No more meth-head hookers with no teeth...
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bosskev
08/04/09

@Bigbadbikernerd: You make a good point. Still, I can't help but wonder what GitEmSteveDave would have to say about this breakthrough?
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
08/04/09

@bosskev: Sign Me Up.
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fuchikoma
06/12/09

In reply to Tiny Plasma Blowtorch Doesn't Let Your Teeth Join the Dark Side
Neat, though I've still yet to see a single dentist with a dental laser yet, so I expect this will come out when I hit retirement age...

On an unrelated note, I played with a "plasma cutter" around 10 years ago - it seemed to be a little bit like an arc welder, but instead of melting its own electrode, it had a reusable tip that blew filtered shop air through it to clear molten metal from the cutting site. It was incredibly easy to use - kind of like a felt marker, and about as accurate, but instead of simply marking, it would leave a clean 1-2mm channel cut out of sheet metal. Fun stuff! I can't vouch if it truly generated plasma or not though.
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not_a_virus.exe.vbs
06/12/09

In reply to Tiny Plasma Blowtorch Doesn't Let Your Teeth Join the Dark Side
Imagine the smell...ewwww.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
06/12/09

In reply to Tiny Plasma Blowtorch Doesn't Let Your Teeth Join the Dark Side
Although shooting a stream of plasma into your mouth sounds painful...

Well, if we compare it to what a pool toy can do and 5 hours in the ER, I think I'll take the blowtorch. Of course, there's two less teeth for me to worry about now...
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bosskev
06/11/09

In reply to Tiny Plasma Blowtorch Doesn't Let Your Teeth Join the Dark Side

"...perhaps, in the future, zapping away diseases on your genitals?"

Making this technology all namby-pamby harmless would kinda change the dramatic impact of this scene:

Bond: Do you expect me to talk?

Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to get your genitals cleaned.

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.357
06/11/09

@bosskev: Perhaps his name should have been Goldfingerer.
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Curves
02/24/09

In reply to The Blowguard Keeps Teeth Away From Penises (NSFW)
Is this like training wheels or something? I can think of 2 reasons why this would be needed: 1-Overly blessed with penis (yeah, keep thinking that one) or 2-she doesnt really want to be doing it, so she is finding ways to make you not want her to do it any more.
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