{"id":169199,"date":"2023-08-07T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/this-drug-might-let-us-regrow-lost-teeth-its-heading-to-human-trials"},"modified":"2023-08-07T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:22:48","slug":"this-drug-might-let-us-regrow-lost-teeth-its-heading-to-human-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/this-drug-might-let-us-regrow-lost-teeth-its-heading-to-human-trials","title":{"rendered":"This drug might let us regrow lost teeth. It\u2019s heading to human trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-drug-might-let-us-regrow-lost-teeth-its-heading-to-human-trials2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A drug that causes animals to grow new teeth is heading to clinical trials. If it proves safe and effective in people, it could one day allow us to regenerate teeth lost to injury, disease, or old age.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/oralhealth\/fast-facts\/tooth-loss\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">17% of Americans<\/a> will lose <em>all <\/em>of their teeth by the time they\u2019re 65, and the vast majority of us will lose at least some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/health\/microbot-oral-care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teeth<\/a> as we get older.<\/p>\n<p>While dentures or implants can replace these lost teeth, one can feel less-than-natural, and the other requires surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drug that causes animals to grow new teeth is heading to clinical trials. If it proves safe and effective in people, it could one day allow us to regenerate teeth lost to injury, disease, or old age. The challenge: 17% of Americans will lose all of their teeth by the time they\u2019re 65, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}