My personal medical qualifications basically consist of giving away free breast exams.
I'm not a doctor, but I'll take a look.
Pretty sure teeth don't regrow. Break one and you have to get a crown. Get a tooth pulled, and it stays gone forever. If they did regrow I've paid my dentist a shit-ton of money for nothing.
I always thought nerve damage was permanent, but after reading your post and doing some research it seems you are right. Sort of? Though it is slightly... confusing. They can fix it. Sometimes? Not exactly sure.
Hey, Francine is a 3rd year medical student who never completed her studies. May have to integrate that into the story.
Glad you're enjoying the game. Share it with your friends.
I am loving the game, it's got a feel of genuine story that I'm actually interested in, I don't care that it doesn't have much smut, I just wanna know what's gonna happen next. So good job, I'm writing my own story but it's probably years away from completion, tis hard to make something.
So yeah, teeth don't usually regrow, but there's various reasons for that and tooth enamel does repair, even though most sources say it doesn't, it's just so slow that it can't in any way keep up with the modern diet, sugar, wheat, poor calcium intake etc. So they say it doesn't regrow and can't be repaired but saliva itself is a part of the remineralization process, why do that if it can't do that at all.
Part of that is flouride too, it binds to teeth in place of calcium, hence making them harder, only it's harder so it's also more brittle, technically it works but at the expense of longevity and genuine repair that would happen otherwise.
I know for a fact they do regrow because I've had xrays before and years after finding 3 cavities in my teeth, I ignored everything my dentist said about needing to fill them (anasthetic literally doesn't work on me so... fillings = pain), and 7 years later one has disappeared, the other two are smaller than they were. I did pay a lot of attention to my teeth in that time, extra calcium and herbs that speed up bone regeneration etc. but point is, the process has been documented and I've experienced it reverse the damage first hand.
Yes though, a full tooth wouldn't regrow typically.
Lab grown organs are gonna be a thing soon though, from your own DNA no less. So in theory, if a healer can direct the body to heal in one spot, they could tell the body to regrow a tooth from scratch, they'd just need it to be inside a gum while it grows... no idea how that'd work really but it'd be an interesting exercise to figure out. Sharks do it all the time so I'm sure there's an explanation as to how.
The nerve damage thing is complex because most often people don't fully heal, no case is the same, just like no person is the same. Nerves rejoin and merge but often in totally random different places, so the one nerve strand that controlled your liver function is now just motor function for your left little toe or whatever. Silly example obv but the point is, everything gets rewired so sometimes it's just a major mess, some people can relearn everything from that place but, not always what happens.
Babies however have been documented regrowing entire sections of brain tissue after major brain damage, pretty much anything can fix itself, it just doesn't usually, but the physiological mechanism is there. Stem cells can become any cells. Had a friend grow back a finger joint, bone and all. Anything is possible.
I like the that idea of using her knowledge being incomplete, it'd be really cool if she at some point surprised herself and did something she didn't think could happen. Character growth moment!