Comments on: I got totally screwed today, and here’s a picture of it:

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:58:17 +0000

Biotine!

Yeah, the infection mostly went away with pills, then he dug the rest out, and now I’ve got more pills.

By: daedalus2u

daedalus2u — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:47:00 +0000

The antibacterial mouthwash is problematic. You need to prevent an infection, but you want the biofilm on your tongue to grow back. It is the tongue biofilm that reduces nitrate in saliva to nitrite, and that nitrite (a couple mM/L) is important in anti-bactrial activity both in the mouth and in the gut. At stomach pH the nitrite goes to NO, levels like 100 ppm.

It is NO from bone strain that regulates the osteoclastic/blastic balance. More NO is better.

By: Lynn Wilhelm

Lynn Wilhelm — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:01:45 +0000

Wow, first the leg, then the tooth. But what about that festering infection you had to wait to treat–did it hurt? Did you know you had it?

By the way, my dentist is Dr Beavers.
His brother and several children are dentists too. All from a farming family in what was once rural NC.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:34:20 +0000

D. C. Sessions: I’d be happy to, but I don’t know how.

By: MyStEryPeRsOn

MyStEryPeRsOn — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:57:49 +0000

oooouuucchh

By: rob

rob — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:47:53 +0000

can you pick up kqrs with that thing or are you stuck with ks95?

By: DuWayne

DuWayne — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:41:21 +0000

Ahhh, just what you needed – more pain killers…

By: megan

megan — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:55:44 +0000

Hey, I’ve had you beat for years. From a martial arts injury to an eyesocket, I’ve had a screw in my head to repair the blown out occipital lobe fracture. Been screwy ever since literally as it messed with my sinus cavity behind it.

By: momkat

momkat — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:16:28 +0000

It is a cool process, but this is from someone who loves scrubbing in on a C-section and marveling at the wonder that is the contents of the human abdominal cavity. I went with local rather than conscious sedation when I had the implant put in, just so I could tell what the dentist was doing. BTW, you’ll be glad you went with the implant.

By: Mark P

Mark P — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:54:41 +0000

That reminds me of why my brother in law says he found orthopedic surgery to be appealing. He said with all the screws and metal and tools it was like working on cars.