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Chapter 484 Wisdom teeth have become treasures

Mo is an international metropolis. Because it is an international metropolis, most of the hospital staff in Mohu are bilingual.

Even though Tom is an American, he doesn't know how to speak Mandarin at all, he can communicate smoothly in Qingya Dental Hospital using English.

After asking the nurse at the consultation desk, Tom took his family along the bilingual sign along the way and took the elevator to the newly opened dental regeneration project on the fifth floor.

As soon as we walked out of the elevator, through transparent glass doors and isolation panels, Tom's family saw more than 20 equipment that was about half a person tall and full of technology.

Each of these devices is square. In the center of the device, there is a container filled with light yellow liquid. In the container, there are a bunch of pulp stem cells being cultivated. Through the transparent container material, everyone can clearly see the scene of the cells inside proliferating and dividing.

"So amazing!" Tom's little daughter blinked her bright big eyes and lay on the glass door with curiosity, watching the scene of the equipment inside working.

This is indeed a very magical scene.

Although humans cannot see the changes of individual cells clearly with the naked eye, sand accumulates into towers. When hundreds of thousands of dental stem cells gather together, they form a large cell population and proliferate simultaneously.

Although so many cells gather together, they are probably the size of rice grains, but they can’t stand it!

In a device, more than one cell population can be cultivated, more than ten cell populations can be cultivated at the same time, and doctors can cultivate more than ten teeth!

This can be clearly seen through the naked eye that the cells are undergoing division and proliferation!

Tom remembered the nurse's advice before getting on the elevator.

If you have intensive phobia, don't look around when you go to the fifth floor, just keep looking at your feet...

Tom thought the nurse was playing some small jokes about Chinese culture with him, but after seeing the scene in front of him, he understood.

If the intensive phobia saw this scene, I would probably have goose bumps all over my body. It was possible that I would scream and ran back to the elevator and press down the stairs in a serious manner.

"Jason, stop looking, go here!" Tom looked around and saw the hospital sign in a very conspicuous position, and then pulled Jason to the consultation area.

Passport registration, queueing, and outpatient treatment, and the process is almost no different from that of Chinese people who see a doctor, but it is somewhat different from the way of visiting a doctor in American hospitals.

In the United States, in addition to emergency departments, patients usually make appointments with the doctor in advance, and make appointments more than a week in advance, and then wait until the appointment time, and then go to the hospital for treatment.

This method may be more humane, but it is suitable for countries with a small population, but not for countries with a large population like China.

If everyone makes an appointment, it is absolutely not time to see a doctor, because there is no absolute standard time for doctors to consult. Maybe this patient is just a small problem, and the consultation is over in a few minutes, but the patient is a big problem. He needs to do some examinations and then come back for a second consultation. Everything is uncertain.

For example, in the United States, if you usually have to do a test, let the patient make an appointment for the examination by himself, then go home and make an appointment for the next consultation, because your consultation time has passed and now it is serving other patients.

This is very slow, so minor illnesses often lead to major illnesses.

However, Americans are used to it, so they don’t think there is anything wrong with this medical treatment process.

But in China, if you dare to do this, the hospital will be smashed by an angry patient. Do you want to delay treatment if you treat a doctor? You can't delay it for a second!

So after experiencing the efficiency of the Chinese medical system, Tom was shocked!

I registered, lined upstairs, lined up for about half an hour, and started to ask questions. The doctor briefly asked Jason about his past medical history, whether he had any other oral diseases, and took a flashlight to check his oral condition, and focused on his dental implants.

Then Jason went to the next room to take a photo of his oral CT.

Two hours later, Jason took his oral ct photos and returned to the clinic. The whole process was completed in one go!

If you are in the United States, it will take at least one week and see a doctor twice before you can get it done!

After taking his oral ct for a while, the attending doctor said to Jason and Tom: "If you want to regenerate your teeth, you need to remove your implant first and repair the alveolar bone before you can regenerate the tooth, because part of your alveolar bone has been destroyed by the implant."

To put it simply, dental implants are actually nailed into the alveolar bone with something like a nail, then used this nail as a bearing column to fill the material inside, and finally installed a ceramic crown.

Therefore, as long as the dental implant is implanted, there is a hole in the alveolar bone. The hole must be repaired first before the real teeth can be transplanted inside, and some atrophic tissue in the alveolar also needs to be repaired.

But the problem is not big, that is, use some pulp stem cells. Dental stem cells can form bone substances and can repair the wounds of dental implants, which is the process more troublesome. Jason's dental implants must be extracted first, and he will be missing another tooth for a while.

"Doctor, I listen to you. As long as my teeth grow again, I can do anything!" Jason gritted his teeth, nodded and agreed.

Now that I suffer more, I don’t have to suffer anymore. I have real teeth to use, which is better than always using dental implants.

Isn’t it just to remove the dental implant? No problem!

The doctor nodded.

"Okay, then you come to the hospital at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. We will perform dental implants and wisdom teeth removal surgery, and then culture dental stem cells for you. By the way, it is recommended that you save some of the stem cells in the stem cell bank, so that if you need them in the future, you can use them directly."

"But you are a foreigner and you cannot save stem cells in China. You cannot transport the extra stem cells back to your motherland."

Jason scratched his head and said in some doubt: "Doctor, don't I have two wisdom teeth? Do you have to remove them this time? I checked it online. Didn't it mean that the pulp stem cells of a tooth are enough to be cultured for teeth regeneration?"

"Oh yes, I forgot this." The doctor laughed and was worried.

Well, wisdom teeth have become a hot resource now. A useless tooth that I used to want to get inflamed is immediately removed. Now it has become the only savior for adults to regenerate teeth and is well protected.

Today's Chinese people, as long as the local stem cell bank is full and they cannot save stem cells, they will not be willing to pull them out even if their wisdom teeth are inflamed and painful!
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