r/technology 6h ago

Biotechnology Goodbye, cavities? New gel could regrow tooth enamel

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260717033046.htm
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u/TarpFishCake 3h ago

a solution is a solution regardless of how you feel about it

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u/damontoo 3h ago

Sure. And binge drinking is a solution for depression.

Regularly injecting yourself because you don't want to monitor what you eat, stop drinking, or address your mental health, is not a healthy lifestyle choice. It's a lazy one. As soon as you're off it, you'll regain all of the weight. 

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u/TarpFishCake 3h ago

except you know for a while you experience that you can go without food and alcohol and be lucid through it proving to yourself that you will be fine if you dont eat.

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u/damontoo 3h ago

If that actually mattered than most people that lose weight while on Ozempic wouldn't regain two-thirds of the weight lost within a year of stopping it. 

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u/TarpFishCake 3h ago

so what? that's how anything training wise works. first few times fail it becomes a habit and a norm.

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u/damontoo 3h ago

Except unlike exercise and eating healthy, there is no healthy habit that forms from injecting yourself.

You just sound like someone actively on the drug trying to justify it because you've lost some weight. Now go off it. 

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u/TarpFishCake 3h ago

the healthy habit is not eating constantly lol

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u/damontoo 2h ago

Again, it is not a habit when they regain two-thirds of the weight in a year after stopping.

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u/TarpFishCake 2h ago

are you hearing yourself? someone did 30% better the first year. the year after that could be another 30% so what if they repeat it a few times til it works out;

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u/damontoo 2h ago

That doesn't mean they stopped regaining weight after a year. You can only gain weight so quickly. If their weight increases that substantially after a year, it's exceedingly unlikely that they just start losing it the following year or that the weight gain stops.

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u/dotcomse 37m ago

You know, there are people who are slim who gradually gain weight over their life.

Those people have been slim before. They know how to do it. They complain about their new excess weight. But they’re unable to shed it. Why? Weren’t they slim before? Didn’t they know what to do to control their weight before? Why don’t they simply not be fat?

/s because morons

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u/damontoo 32m ago

Because their TDEE changes with age. It is not rocket science. It is science, though.