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It will be unnecessary as long as dentures are the cheaper option. If there is a drug that can regrow teeth then denture manufacturers will start jacking up their costs now to offset the decline in need. Eventually they will be equally priced, they will both be $1 million.
I don't like your take. It's not cynical or pessimistic enough
Except that you can't really compare dentures and teeth. Not having teeth brings along a bunch of side effects like loss of bone structure in the jaw that wouldn't happen with teeth.