[thangngoc89]

(I’m a dentist)

To further expand on your comment, the alveolar bone is porous so we use pilers on the tooth to compress the alveolar bone, making a big enough hole for the whole tooth to come out in one piece.

Molars have 2-3 roots so it is a lot of efforts. In difficult case, I would divide the tooth into sections to pull each root out.

[infinite8s]

What's the current state of the art in terms of being able to regrow teeth/regenerate alveolar bone?

[heymijo]

One thing is using rapamycin for bone and soft tissue regrowth. The FDA recently approved a human study after previous research showed success in mice.

https://dental.washington.edu/uw-periodontal-study-receives-...

[namibj]

For teeth? The https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7880588/ Anti-USAG-1 serum.

It's laboratory antibody serum from a specific human-sourced monoclonal cell line. Seems to work on all mammals (notably both nice and ferrets; I'm told their teeth system is widely different evolutionary and that humans are kinda in the middle).

A human study should be ongoing on some children in Japan that for genetic reasons are missing a few adult teeth (never grew).

[b112]

I have 4! At least on the one yanked a few years back. My dental surgeon was amused... and annoyed.

[lukeholder]

Don’t ever tell a 2 wisdom teeth story: https://youtu.be/cRdjDTMSTtY?si=4Qz0OR6B8t2MG7E9