Dental experiences with O.City

[GloryDayz]

I had an olive that was mostly pitted, that cost me..

.

[Pepe Silvia]

About 5 years ago I had two wisdom teeth that needed to be pulled. My dentist kept putting it off even though I insisted he pull them as soon as possible. He finally lets me make an appointment and two weeks before the appointment one of the teeth starts throbbing in the worst pain I have probably ever felt in my life. I called the next day to see if he could move it up, they said the best they could do was bump it up a week. Fuuuuuck. So for an entire week I had to put on that oral jel crap just to make it through. I shivered in relief when he pulled those frickers.

[O.city]

Dental newsletter from Dr O.city:

Pretty eventful day here at the office. One of my ortho kids got undercut going up for a layup on the basketball court and his face took the brunt of the fall. They took him to the ER last night after, ER doc said to get in touch with the dentist and they gave him pain meds. He was here at 830 this am, upon one look I realized that the only thing keeping his front 2 teeth in were the bracket and wires and that his maxilla (the bone under your nose that holds teeth in) was pretty much shattered.

I anesthetize everywhere, take the wires off the brackets and the two teeth fall out. I start pulling chunks of bone out from the socket site until I get to solid attached bone. Luckily for him, it wasn't much fractured bone, but the teeth were snapped off with only small root tips left, so we extracted those and stitched him up. I took my diamond coated drill and smoothed the crowns of the teeth up and rigged them back on the wire for now so he'll have a couple front teeth for the next few weeks while he's healing.

Pretty interesting ordeal.

Then this afternoon I did a root canal and crown on one of my amish patients and he traded me a half butchered and packaged hog and a third of a cow packaged and 20 lbs of chicken they butchered over the weekend.

So I think I came out ahead on that transaction, now I just have to figure out how to get all this shit home to the deep freeze

[Marcellus]

Originally Posted by O.city

Dental newsletter from Dr O.city:

Pretty eventful day here at the office. One of my ortho kids got undercut going up for a layup on the basketball court and his face took the brunt of the fall. They took him to the ER last night after, ER doc said to get in touch with the dentist and they gave him pain meds. He was here at 830 this am, upon one look I realized that the only thing keeping his front 2 teeth in were the bracket and wires and that his maxilla (the bone under your nose that holds teeth in) was pretty much shattered.

I anesthetize everywhere, take the wires off the brackets and the two teeth fall out. I start pulling chunks of bone out from the socket site until I get to solid attached bone. Luckily for him, it wasn't much fractured bone, but the teeth were snapped off with only small root tips left, so we extracted those and stitched him up. I took my diamond coated drill and smoothed the crowns of the teeth up and rigged them back on the wire for now so he'll have a couple front teeth for the next few weeks while he's healing.

Pretty interesting ordeal.

That sounds ****ing terrible.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by O.city

Dental newsletter from Dr O.city:

Pretty eventful day here at the office. One of my ortho kids got undercut going up for a layup on the basketball court and his face took the brunt of the fall. They took him to the ER last night after, ER doc said to get in touch with the dentist and they gave him pain meds. He was here at 830 this am, upon one look I realized that the only thing keeping his front 2 teeth in were the bracket and wires and that his maxilla (the bone under your nose that holds teeth in) was pretty much shattered.

I anesthetize everywhere, take the wires off the brackets and the two teeth fall out. I start pulling chunks of bone out from the socket site until I get to solid attached bone. Luckily for him, it wasn't much fractured bone, but the teeth were snapped off with only small root tips left, so we extracted those and stitched him up. I took my diamond coated drill and smoothed the crowns of the teeth up and rigged them back on the wire for now so he'll have a couple front teeth for the next few weeks while he's healing.

Pretty interesting ordeal.

Then this afternoon I did a root canal and crown on one of my amish patients and he traded me a half butchered and packaged hog and a third of a cow packaged and 20 lbs of chicken they butchered over the weekend.

So I think I came out ahead on that transaction, now I just have to figure out how to get all this shit home to the deep freeze

Sucks for the kid. Landing on your face is no joke.

Best thing about the barter business is you don't have to pay Income Tax. Color me jealous. Fat boy loves (legally) averting taxes.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

Sucks for the kid. Landing on your face is no joke.

Best thing about the barter business is you don't have to pay Income Tax. Color me jealous. Fat boy loves (legally) averting taxes.

Actually, doesn't barter technically have to be reported as income? I realize that no one ever does it, but I'm not sure he's legally avoiding taxes with that setup.

I was on a train this weekend and an Amish girl smiled at me. I wasn't sure if I had to marry her or not.

[displacedinMN]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Actually, doesn't barter technically have to be reported as income? I realize that no one ever does it, but I'm not sure he's legally avoiding taxes with that setup.

I was on a train this weekend and an Amish girl smiled at me. I wasn't sure if I had to marry her or not.

He owes the IRS 8 hamburgers, and a 1/2 chicken. Good luck collecting on that.

[Sofa King]

Originally Posted by O.city

Dental newsletter from Dr O.city:

Pretty eventful day here at the office. One of my ortho kids got undercut going up for a layup on the basketball court and his face took the brunt of the fall. They took him to the ER last night after, ER doc said to get in touch with the dentist and they gave him pain meds. He was here at 830 this am, upon one look I realized that the only thing keeping his front 2 teeth in were the bracket and wires and that his maxilla (the bone under your nose that holds teeth in) was pretty much shattered.

I anesthetize everywhere, take the wires off the brackets and the two teeth fall out. I start pulling chunks of bone out from the socket site until I get to solid attached bone. Luckily for him, it wasn't much fractured bone, but the teeth were snapped off with only small root tips left, so we extracted those and stitched him up. I took my diamond coated drill and smoothed the crowns of the teeth up and rigged them back on the wire for now so he'll have a couple front teeth for the next few weeks while he's healing.

Pretty interesting ordeal.

Then this afternoon I did a root canal and crown on one of my amish patients and he traded me a half butchered and packaged hog and a third of a cow packaged and 20 lbs of chicken they butchered over the weekend.

So I think I came out ahead on that transaction, now I just have to figure out how to get all this shit home to the deep freeze

Long term what are you going to do? Put some of those screw in fake teeth?

[O.city]

Originally Posted by Sofa King

Long term what are you going to do? Put some of those screw in fake teeth?

Once he finishes growing we’ll have some implants placed

Biggest thing we wanna do now is keep the bone level there stable which will be a bitch

[yeti]

Originally Posted by O.city

Once he finishes growing we’ll have some implants placed



Biggest thing we wanna do now is keep the bone level there stable which will be a bitch

Did you try to graft the sockets or was the facial plate toast?

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Actually, doesn't barter technically have to be reported as income? I realize that no one ever does it, but I'm not sure he's legally avoiding taxes with that setup.

I was on a train this weekend and an Amish girl smiled at me. I wasn't sure if I had to marry her or not.

Heh. You’re right, by God.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/four-th...-if-you-barter

Oops.

Anyway, every hamburger tastes better seasoned with tax fraud.

I probably wouldn’t try to double dip by deducting that as an uncollectable receivable, but I’d for sure not hit print on that invoice.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by yeti

Did you try to graft the sockets or was the facial plate toast?

I pulled chunks of the facial plate out of the area, but it wasn't as bad as I thought initially. I grafted back what I could and put a membrane over it. We'll see.

Situations like this really suck.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by O.city

Once he finishes growing we’ll have some implants placed

Biggest thing we wanna do now is keep the bone level there stable which will be a bitch

Any chance for demineralized bone? While they didn't use that on our son's cleft palate, they harvested from the hip instead, mainly because of the insurance company, it was certainly an interesting option.

[O.city]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

Any chance for demineralized bone? While they didn't use that on our son's cleft palate, they harvested from the hip instead, mainly because of the insurance company, it was certainly an interesting option.

There's so many different types of grafts out there now. You can use cadaver bone, bovine, harvest from the patient etc.

I don't do much of it cause it's expensive as hell to keep on hand.

[Iowanian]

There is an Amish guy in my area who repairs boots, has a sawmill and makes dentures for $200/set. Among the more poor people, they claim they're actually pretty good.

I traded a chiropractic adjustment for a bottle of honey a while back.