Need to get Bo up on the Our Bar Header..

Amazing after all this time, I still recognize all the characters up there!

Feel better, Bo.

And these collective dental stories are truly horrifying.

>>31509 Good to see you coming back around Bo. Sorry to hear about the dental troubles.

>>31538 Still have the two wheelers, pedal type. I have forgone the motorized versions as my self preservation switch gets turned off when I sit on one and roll the throttle back.
You are correct about the time involved and the level of quality. Around 4 hours for an appointment and the professors always checking and rechecking the work.

Dental pain is awful, had a wisdom tooth that got infected which was very unpleasant, but thankfully not had any of the horrible issues you guys have suffered.
Best of luck getting it all sorted Bo, I hope it gets dealt with quickly and with the absolute minimum of pain.

The University of Texas has a dental department here in Houston. A person might need considerable work to be done for enrollment but the price and quality can't be beat. A professor looks at all work the student has done and the work is far better than a regular dentist's office. The price is for materials only which would make a crown about $200.00. I got a 4 tooth bridge in 1986 for $600.00. I didn't like it but once enrolled in the program, you have to get all the work done so the student can graduate. You're in the chair 4 hours at a time with professor check-in about every hour which slows the process considerably.

>>31534 I have to ask .... Did you get rid of 2 wheel contraptions?

>>31534 a true horror story. No need for pictures.

In my youth (Age 14) I engaged the handlebar of my motorbike with my face, causing me to kill one tooth (needed a root canal) and knock another one out (which was bridged in, attaching to neighboring teeth). 5 years later, whilst riding my bicycle, I encountered an unavoidable sewer grate, sized correctly to allow my front tire to lodge squarely into, providing a rapid stop, and catapulting me into the curb/road. This action allowed me to break off the dead tooth, as well as the adjoining bridge, and killed another front tooth. Two more root canals, ending up with a bridge, spanning from canine to canine. They ground the canines down to posts, as well as the newly canaled tooth, and mounted the bridge. Somewhere around my 35th trip around the sun, I started experiencing inexplicable pain in my dental area. It turns out that the bond that my bridge had on the posts had begun to fail. With the seal broken, decay had begun, under the bridge, causing a deep and painful infection. The first and second consultations estimated $28-35 thousand dollars for reconstruction.
I opted for the third choice, $7k and an hour long drive to the dental school. The process took 16 months, and many many trips to the school to complete, but I managed to get a new bridge mounted to 3 screw type implants, spanning again, from canine to canine. I had a temporary denture plate, that I could wear, but I found that it impaired my speech, and I could function better without it.

>>31513 Since it's a front tooth I'd get the stud mounted false tooth. No bridge with wires or cleaning just a stud drilled and screwed into the bone and a matching tooth glued over it. Here that procedure is about the same price as a crown.

>>31512 wow, THAT expensive? I had a quotation for a root canal and crown too, it was nearly 670 euro or 761 usd. The removal of the tooth was only 20 euro or 22 usd.

>>31509 Filling the gap with a fake tooth ( a bridge) will cost me 300 euro! So I think I'll leave it like this. You only see it when I smile, so..

Yeah. I found if the cost is not agreeable and I don't use the tooth that much I'm better just getting it yanked. Root canal and crown here are upwards of $3000.00.

I'm debating whether to just have extractions done instead of root canals. I have until Thursday to decide. Both teeth aren't visible when I smile. I've had a root canal have to be redone before. Perhaps choosing an extraction will eliminate future trouble with the same tooth.
4 years ago I dealt with this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigeminal_neuralgia
Nerve pain is the worst.
I have to pony up for the cost. I guess I will have to wait to buy a new set of golf clubs.

>>31499 Sorry to hear that, Bo, get well soon!

I recently had tooth nerve infection due to a bump/hit to to face (can't remember the door). The dentist give 2 options but the she practically guaranteed it would go dead, so I opted for removal (it was also a lot cheaper). Granted it wasn't a root canal, but I have had 3 of those already, and 2 wisdom teeth removed.

Anyways. Do you have to pay anything for the treatment?

>>31499 Give us some pictures, articles to jibber-jabber about and the like. Please visit more often.
Stay alive, Bo

been battling multiple health issue the last few years. Wish I could say I am finally 100% but just got found out I get to have a double root canal in a week. yippee. a week of antibiotics to reduce the swelling first.
Other than that just living life.
Still in Canada.

>>31469 Hi Bo, good to have you here. How's life treating you?

>>31469 I'm seeing it's about 3 years now. You should visit and hang out more often. Miss your humor. Our group is shrinking and you'd make a good asset. Surely, you have time, huh?

All good, Bo. You?

Once in a blue moon I show up to the bar. What's up regulars.

>>31416 Well, thank you, J.C. There were more adjustments to take out a grainy look but I couldn't see where that was necessary.
Grim's suggestion of a jelly-copter was a good one but I didn't have time. It didn't look strong enough to lift me anyway.

>>31414 >>31413 These are better than any crappy moon anyway! Seriously though it looks great.

Here's another one but the red glow in the sky is from the city. I used a wide-angle lens.

Well, the clouds were thicker than pea soup; not even a glimmer of a moon.
I decided not to let all that reading go down the toilet and snapped some pics of my out LED lighting. I guess they're ok; I'm not a shutterbug.

Build yourself a rocket, or 'weather' balloon with a gimbal gopro, or a multicopter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XinbTcQAAc

Cloud expected in the UK too. What a surprise!?!

hahaha. Technically Sputnik-2 had a dog inside. Here's the page of other animalnauts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space who have been to space before us.

you could rent a plane or heli to see the red moon..

I've never read the book on 'time lapse' settings. Maybe I'll have to do some quick homework.
Could be a total wash-out here also. The clouds are rolling in and the chance of rain is climbing for the weekend.
Figures. It was cloudy when Haley's Comet passed, cloudy when Hale Bopp went over and just about everything else worth seeing.
The only thing I did get to see was Sputnik with a fuckin' monkey inside.

4am here, but too early for me. Do post some pix here if you're snapping