That yes, braces can cost around $5,000 and require 12 dental clean up per year compared to the normal 3 for adult.
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26 seconds to 92 minutes thoughâŚ
It the lawyers get paid per hour, thatâs like 1/60 of the cost divided by 2 on top to pay for the robot AI.
Maybe the AI found how to solve financial problems for contracts and make the work more profitable with less security risk.
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Usually something whose name in English I canât find, essentially a prosthetic white tooth cover sticked to the outside of the actual tooth. Cheap ones can look bad but a good and expensive dentist will make them look like natural teeth, well adapted to the mouth and face of the subject. The dental crown is left untouched as the covers are softer than enamel. This is the expensive and right way, rather than mess with your natural teeth.
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That could hardly work though.
Itâs also called filings.
I have filings , but mine are not white.
It does protect the teeth and helps them to heal however.
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No, itâs not fillings. The Spanish name for it itâs âfunda dentalâ and is applied to the side of the tooth shown when you smile, like building a wall of white perfect teeth before your actual teeth. Itâs prosthetic, not functional, this is why it doesnât covers the crown.
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Recently I discovered that the first teeth we have, have the root of tooth also, with nerve. The root is assimilated when new tooth comes out. I wonder why we dont have new teeth replacing the prevous ones multiple times per tooth. It would be nice to have new teeth after every 10 years.
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WIP
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Fulfilling the dream of many fedo lovers out there.
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Never undock without a Fedo and a vintage copy of âHull Tanking, Eliteâ in your cargohold 
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Cough.
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Probably because we descend from beings who werenât planned to last longer than 40 years so why would they need new tooth? The abbility was lost somehwere down our ancestry tree.
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this is a PHENOMENAL COSMIC BUMP.
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Not exactly.
Deciduous teeth in mammals donât really have any evolutionary advantage, in the sense that their existence is not the result of a direct adaption, but rather the side effect of another adaption.
One cannot assess âevolutionary advantageâ of any trait in isolation. One has to look at what preceded that trait, ie what the trait in question replaced.
And in this context, deciduous teeth are, arguably, a disadvantage, which exists because the main trait that it is a side effect of is itself a greater advantage than the disadvantage of deciduous teeth by themselves.
In other words, it could be the ancillary cost of another adaption, but it has nothing to do with average lifespan.
The ancestral state prior to the evolution of deciduous teeth in humans was actually continuous replacement of teeth throughout life, not just once. A modern mammal that wears out or otherwise loses its second set of teeth is up the creek without a paddle, so to speak. It cannot grow any more replacement teeth and typically faces starvation.
Relative to the ancestral state where new teeth will always grow to replace old ones that are lost, this certainly cannot be called an advantage.
So why did mammals lose this ability, and end up with only two sets of teeth for their entire lives?
It is most likely because humans and other omnivorous mammals evolved complex, differentiated teeth. Multiple different types of teeth in the same mouth, each specialised for different tasks, and fitting together to work together as a larger unit, rather than as individual teeth. We do not see this level of dental complexity in any other lineage of vertebrate, and this allows mammals to process their food, by chewing, much more efficiently, making the food easier to digest in the intestines and allowing mammals to extract more nutrients from their food, faster. Our differentiated teeth are a vastly superior adaptation that facilitates our omnivorous diet, which puts us at the very top of the food chain. The more food available for a species to eat, the more likely it is going to survive. When one option runs out, others are available, reducing the chances of a species becoming extinct due to famine driven by competition.
But such complex teeth come with costs. It takes more energy to make them, and if you try to continuously replace them as they are lost through life, you end up with a mouth full of teeth at different stages of growth, some large, some small, some long, some short. The precise matching of shape and size of neighbouring teeth that enable that efficient chewing is lost.
So probably through a combination of selection for chewing efficiency and minimisation of resource expenditure in growing teeth, mammals ended up evolving to have just two sets of teeth for the entire lives, as the optimum balance having your teeth last long enough and the cost of growing new sets of teeth and keeping the different types of teeth all working together properly.
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I feel like I would have no disadvantages by having new set every 10 years. Maybe I dont need them really, but then I dont need many things and still have them. Human have always reached where nature never equipped him, like for moon. We are the rulers of this world! We can do what we wish! 
Only if some scientist would see its actually a good thing. 
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Old and still gold.
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It looks like an Astero, flies like an Astero, but itâs not.
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