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Japan Tooth Regrowing Drug Lisp Reaction Meme

This meme opens with a news headline stating 'Japan has started testing world-first tooth regrowing drug on humans'. Below the headline are two side-by-side images: the left shows a medical model of a lower jaw with a new tooth growing into an empty gap between existing teeth, and the right is a close-up photo of a man smiling, revealing a missing front tooth. Underneath the images is a comment from Twitter/X user @InsaneMistress (display name Lioness) that reads 'thith ith great newth', a phonetic spelling of 'this is great news' written to mimic the lisping speech pattern common for people missing front teeth. The joke relies on the irony that people who stand to benefit most from the tooth regrowing drug would pronounce their excitement about the news with this lisp.
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Japan has started testing world-first tooth regrowing drug on humans

Overview

This meme opens with a news headline stating 'Japan has started testing world-first tooth regrowing drug on humans'. Below the headline are two side-by-side images: the left shows a medical model of a lower jaw with a new tooth growing into an empty gap between existing teeth, and the right is a close-up photo of a man smiling, revealing a missing front tooth. Underneath the images is a comment from Twitter/X user @InsaneMistress (display name Lioness) that reads 'thith ith great newth', a phonetic spelling of 'this is great news' written to mimic the lisping speech pattern common for people missing front teeth. The joke relies on the irony that people who stand to benefit most from the tooth regrowing drug would pronounce their excitement about the news with this lisp.

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This meme was shared on the Reddit:Meme subreddit via RSS feed. It combines a real-world news headline about Japanese clinical trials for an innovative tooth-regrowing medication, stock medical imagery, and a humorous user comment originally posted on Twitter/X. It uses a common relatable joke format to react to scientific news, playing on a common speech stereotype for people with missing teeth for comedic effect.

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This meme consists of a news headline, two side-by-side images, and a sarcastic comment. The top headline states 'Japan has started testing world-first tooth regrowing drug on humans'. The left image shows a medical model of a human lower jaw with a new tooth growing in the gum line, while the right image is a close-up of a smiling man missing one of his front teeth. Below the images, a comment from user @InsaneMistress (display name Lioness) reads 'this is great news if hockey players could read'. The joke plays on two common tropes: that hockey players frequently have teeth knocked out during games, making them ideal candidates for the tooth regrowing drug, and the unfair stereotypical joke that hockey players are unintelligent and unable to read, so they would not find out about the drug.

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