I've always wondered how come there wasn't more effort put into something like this. It's a huge business opportunity. Everyone hates going to the dentist.
Being honest:
1. I started balding at a relatively normal age (first signs late 20s). At first I welcomed it, then I got a little self conscious (and wished for greys instead, those are finally coming into my beard and I couldn’t be happier).
2. I’ve had dental health issues since childhood. My family couldn’t afford regular dental care and I’ve always worried about it.
3. My teeth have rapidly deteriorated in my late 30s. I can’t currently afford any dental care and I already know I’m looking at drastic solutions when I can.
Having both a thin head of hair and a mouth full of trash, I know what I’d prioritize given the chance to magically turn back time time or scientifically reverse the worst of my biology. And it’s not my hair.
Shaving/trimming/styling baldness is trivial. My mouth is an unavoidable turnoff, a constant terrible personal experience, and an ongoing health risk.
It’s bonkers to me that there’s more money in solving hair than solving teeth, even though I know it’s true.
I was really annoyed at him for a while because I had moved heaven and earth for him to help him screen into the highly competitive vision trial. But... his life, his choice. Even though he made a dumb one, imo.
Maybe he chose what he thought would work.
You can close your mouth., but can’t stop someone from looking at your head.
You can surgically replace all your teeth with perfect replicas and no one will be able to tell otherwise except in how perfect they are. The cost for this isn’t low, but nor is it unobtainable. I bet $10k in Eastern Europe gets you nice teeth for the rest of your life.
There is just no great option for hair. Even with infinite money like Musk or Bezos, you have plugs or nothing.
But... if this enamel deal helps you, I’m glad!
Yeah I can close my mouth. And suffer. And let it keep rotting, crossing my fingers that related health impacts don’t get to me before I can pay a car’s value to get health care. Or people can look at my bald head and... nothing meaningful happened.
I appreciate your kindness in expressing this contrarian view, but it’s not helpful.
That sounds like wishful thinking, if it were true there wouldn't be a giant market in covering up hair loss.
Advertising makes us do things we might not otherwise do, is what I'm saying.