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It's already a thing and causes issues, currently.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/hyperdontia
I'd like to understand the proposed mechanism for controlling it. If we weren't so close to self-extinction, maybe evolution would have time to better perfect the phenomenon.