For decades, I've experienced pain in my teeth after warming up inside after being out in the cold for a while (e.g., 30 minute walk). (The "cold" doesn't even have to be very cold: low 50s F can do it to me.) The pain can be pretty severe, and last for hours. I've mentioned it to numerous dentists, but none have had anything helpful to say. Today, I finally found a paper describing the phenomenon. It's nice to know people know it's a thing, at least. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736355/#teeth#pain#dentistry
nah dog I'm toothmaxxing, polish the pearlies 40 times a day, if you not brushin you not crushin, stay toothy mouthnation #toothgod#lifeadvice#finance#fyp#teeth
Several years ago, I had a CT scan of my jaw. The dentist wasn't sure if she was allowed to give me a copy of the scan, which led me to ask "who owns the copyright to my medical images?" I still don't have an answer to the copyright question - but I do now […]
Several years ago, I had a CT scan of my jaw. The dentist wasn't sure if she was allowed to give me a copy of the scan, which led me to ask "who owns the copyright to my medical images?" I still don't have an answer to the copyright question - but I do now have a copy of a CT scan!
Last week - following some dental trauma - I had another scan of my head. The dentist took great delight in showing me my bones in 3D. So I asked for a copy.
This was something he'd never done before! So, together, we navigated the software, found the export button, and generated a copy. Even zipped up it was half a gigabyte - a bit too much for email and, not unreasonably, he didn't want me plugging in strange USB devices to his medical equipment. So he sent it over WeTransfer. Possibly not the most secure method for my medical data, but I didn't really have time to set up a personal SFTP site or teach him about installing WSL so he could SCP the content. Ah well, needs must.
Unzipped, the folder was about 700MB. Of that, 400MB was taken up by the included Windows app "Ez3D-i". Unsurprisingly, it didn't run on Linux.
The other 300MB was taken up by 450 .DCM files. These are medical images in the DICOM format. This is a relatively open standard which uses JPG plus lots of metadata. There are dozens of Linux programs which can read this - although many haven't been updated in years.
The easiest GUI for viewing the images is Mango. It presents a view of the CT Scan that you can move around.
But once you get the hang of it, you can manipulate the 3D scan and view it from all angles. It's possible to peel away the soft tissue and do all sorts of other fancy trickery. Even on my laptop without a fancy graphics card, it was fast. Here's a quick animation showing the (false colour) version.
If you have had a CT scan, please do ask for a copy of the DICOM files. It is great fun to explore around your own body.
Now I just need to find a way to import this into my Meta Quest so I can enjoy these teeth in VR!
🆕 blog! “The tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth”
You know that ice-breaker game "Two Truths And A Lie"? When I'm forced into some mandatory office fun, I always say... I've sat in the seat of a space shuttle. I still have two of my baby teeth. I used to be a voice-over artist. Well, one of those truths is about to come crashing […]
You know that ice-breaker game "Two Truths And A Lie"? When I'm forced into some mandatory office fun, I always say...
I've sat in the seat of a space shuttle.
I still have two of my baby teeth.
I used to be a voice-over artist.
Well, one of those truths is about to come crashing down.
When I was younger, I had two of my adult teeth removed. They were coming out at such a crazy angle that they couldn't be tackled with braces. So they were surgically yanked out. I was a teenager at the time and was told that, with care, my remaining baby gnashers would probably last another decade or so - if I remembered to floss.
Three decades on, and I thought the chompers were doing relatively well. Sure, they looked a little worn and stubby - but they had certainly exceeded their manufacturer's guarantee. My lovely dentist had been prodding at them for the last few years with increasing worry. But reassured me they were doing better than expected.
And then, one morning, one of the teeth suffered a catastrophic structural integrity failure.
Aiii! Luckily it didn't hurt - although it did rip into my lip a bit. But it was clear this tooth needed something more drastic than extra-strength Colgate.
The dentist has whittled down the remaining fang to be a bit less stabby. Now I have to decide what I want to happen to the remainder of my tusks.
I've previously wondered about high-tech dental implants - but it looks like there's nothing available. No NFC, light up, Internet-of-Teeth for me!
So I guess I'm going under the gas once again. These old ivories are destined for the scrap-heap. Titanium implants with glow in the dark colour-matched crowns, I guess. I'm not sure I want to travel abroad to get the procedure done. It may be cheaper, but there's less recompense if things go wrong.
If you've have dental implants in the UK, and want to hit me up with strategic info, please use the comment box.
... competing with wing loss in flies (flightlessness), at 25 events counted to date. Can't find an up to date citation; a neat phylogenetic tree of #Diptera marking all the apomorphic events was shown to me by Darren Williams. There's Wagner & Liebherr 1992 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/016953479290047F listing 22 insect orders with flightless species: almost all of them have species with secondary wing loss.
El ratoncito Pérez ( Pérez, the Little Mouse) is a legendary figure widely known among Spanish-speaking children, as well as in Spain. It's like your version of the tooth fairy in English-speaking places. When a child loses a tooth, they place it under their pillow while they sleep, and R. Pérez exchanges that tooth for a little gift or some coins.
Why does the little mouse Pérez want the teeth? Nobody knows...
Je continue ma série de monstres et créatures étranges, aujourd'hui un... chat ?
Peut-être ne le caressez pas de trop près et il a besoin de croquettes très spéciales.
Ici, je poste en noir et jaune, mais sur le dessin original, le jaune est une dorure à la cire d'or.
D'ailleurs !!
Je vais organiser une expo qur Rennes avec mes dessins de monstres, stay tuned comme on dit !
🏥𝟐,𝟖𝟑𝟎 confirmed COVID-19 hospital patients in England, on average every day, over the past 8 months, @NHSEngland report on 8 Feb 2024.
🛌As the NHS struggles, 2,830 beds occupied by people suffering from a disease that didn't exist 4 yrs ago.
🌬️It's airborne and infectious!!!!
And, @UKHSA, how exactly will @NHSEngland, and all other areas of the NHS and social care, cope when the next public health emergency hits the country?
Of course, it may already be here, with the damage being caused by the #measles outbreak, and the #decaying#teeth of so many...
IMAGE ID: "[#changing your #taste for the #cissexuals' palate is to #sacrifice your own #tongue" in black text. there are #wolves on either side of the text with a black border and white background. black stars and #trans symbols decorate the image. END]
I recently took a trip to St. Kitts and Saba aboard the Caribbean Explorer II. This week long adventure was a ton of fun and I took lots of pictures! I briefly shared a preview, but here goes the sharing!
Kicking things off with a small spotted moray! There were eels on every dive, but I like this view of the sharp teeth on the upper jaw. Glad I'm not on the menu!
I have one thing that has to be done today before I can declare the weekend open. So obviously I'm very focused on that and didn't get distracted looking for a photo for #PhotoJanuary2024 with the theme of "sharp".
I could have sworn that #ChinnyTheCat was going to fall off the couch.
He didn't.🙀
And yes, he makes for a fun housemate.
😺
Those teeth tend to nibble on the back of my leg when I'm brushing my teeth. I have no idea what that's about. 🤷