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Toothpaste made from hair provides natural root to repair teeth (www.kcl.ac.uk)
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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The discovery is cool, but whoever edited this press release added some weirdness. There's no suggestion in the article that the toothpaste would be made from "your own hair", and it has nothing to do with the "root". Is that just a misspelling of "route" or is it a feeble attempt at a tooth pun?