Canadian Scientists Regrow Teeth 220
54mc writes "APL reports that Canadian Scientists have created the first device able to regrow teeth and bones.
The researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton filed patents earlier this month in the United States for the tool based on low-intensity pulsed ultrasound technology after testing it on a dozen dental patients in Canada."
Amazing (Score:3, Funny)
So if you are out there, Mr. Dentist man, you can now officially BITE ME!
Inevitable Discovery (Score:4, Funny)
Phase 1 - Invent a sport where a piece of equipment that, at times, travels towards your face at 160 km/hour and weighs only 170 grams.
Phase 2 - Invent a way to grow teeth back due to resulting injury from Phase 1
It's a Canadian make-work program
This notice is to inform you... (Score:4, Funny)
-The Management
Great Test Bed (Score:2, Funny)
Gramps is getting sick of eating through a straw.
As a Canadian, I'd like to.. (Score:3, Funny)
Dog... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:This notice is to inform you... (Score:3, Funny)
*pssst*
Think of all the money you could make knocking your own teech out & selling them to the tooth fairy.
Canada has really young scientists (Score:4, Funny)
A group of Canadian scientists in the age from 4 to 10 has successfully regrown their teeth after they mysteriously lost them.
For Suckers (Score:3, Funny)
I thold you bruthing your theeth wath fo thuckerth !
It makes sense that this comes from Canada... (Score:4, Funny)
Thanks, I'll be here all week, enjoy the veal.
(Disclaimer: I am a Kentuckian)
Re:Root canal? (Score:3, Funny)
Or you could just, you know, brush them..... Oh wait.
I won't believe it... (Score:5, Funny)
1. The Justice dept. (SCO vs IBM)
2. The anti-trust dept. (MS vs US)
3. Other suggestions welcome...
Don't need 'em! (Score:3, Funny)
Just freakin' great. (Score:5, Funny)
Now all those nightmares I have about a woman with teeth in her vagina are going to come true.
Thanks a lot Canada!!
Re:As a Canadian, I'd like to.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Just freakin' great. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:So how exactly does it work? (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously you have a pressing interest in this cutting-edge technology.
Regrow Teeth (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Inevitable Discovery (Score:3, Funny)
Wow (Score:2, Funny)
crickets.chirp()
Re:Medical research is too slow (Score:4, Funny)
And In Related News (Score:4, Funny)
Said an A.D.A. spokesperson, "We need prices to remain high so that we can afford to innovate. When people can just get new teeth cheaply by just crossing the border, our strangle-ho.... uh, revenue stream will be jeopardized. The U.S. government must act immediately!"
So... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So how exactly does it work? (Score:5, Funny)
It's the canadian way; american scientists would come to the same results by menacing the offending jawbone with a large-caliber pistol and shouting at it.
Re:Inevitable Discovery (Score:5, Funny)
Uh, because of all the missing teeth?
This story was front page news in the Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) yesterday a with the headline "new hope for hocky players" (or something like that) and had pictures of vintage and current toothless hocky players.