🆕 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 […]
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Holy shit! This CT Scan is so good that I can see my "Mental Foramen".
Up until today, I had no idea that I had a couple of holes in my lower jaw.
Trying to work out the privacy ramifications of posting a screenshot. This is so freaking cool!
A glistening pool of blood gently wept from the body. Crimson gore sparkled under rapid flash photography as it loosely clung to the wounds. So many wounds. Too many for this to have been an accident. "Bite marks," said the forensics officer. "A lot of bite marks." The detective peered at the ragged corpse. It was barely recognisable as human; just a series of holes where flesh ought to be. …
I've just requested the MRI records of my full entire head and brains.
I'm eventually going to 3D print replacement parts for every bit of me!
Hurrah for the NHS!
They sent me the full MRI of my head (on a CD in a weird file format, but let's not be too grumpy).
I'M GONNA 3D PRINT MY BRAINS!
You can make some Jelly moulds!
@Edent In the nicest possible way... you look better with your flesh on 😆
That is pretty cool though.
@Edent @erikcats Few years ago I painstakingly removed the skull on every layer by hand to compile a usable 3D object from a coworkers brain. Is there a better software stack available today?
Was quite a bit of work but was kind of fun to hand him his brain (with an impressive hole where a tumor once lived).
As previously mentioned, I recently had a some dental issues and learned how to view a CT Scan in 3D using Linux. At a hackathon last week, my friend Sidd brought along a 3D printer. How hard is it to convert a CT scan to a file suitable for printing? Slightly trickier than I expected! Most of the guides I found were outdated, or the software didn't work on Linux, or the instructions assumed a…
Want to know what happens if you keep your baby teeth until your mid-40s?
They end up wearing away to little nubs and have to be extracted under anaesthesia.
One had a fairly long root, but was chipped in the mouth.
The other was hardier, but the root was all but gone.
Hope to get a good price from the Tooth Fairy!
Next stage of my teeth upgrades done.
I now have metal healing abutments instead of holes in my mouth.
Rather felt like I was a piece of IKEA furniture as the dentist took a screwdriver and tightened them in my mouth.
Doesn't look like there's any way to fit an NFC chip in the crowns. So I guess they'll just be boring fangs.
Hopefully quick-socketed so I can easily upgrade them later.
New teeth installed!
Feels *proper* weird to not have holes in my smile. My new mouth is going to take some getting used to.
@mw1cgg as per up-thread, I've had two of my teeth pulled out.
A few months ago, a very friendly dentist (London based) drilled two pilot holes and stuck in some implants + synthetic bone.
Once they healed, he cut my gum open again and added a healing abutment.
In a few weeks, they'll scan my jaw, print some new crowns and screw them on.
Worth shopping around a few dentists. Get a CT scan at one and then show it to others.
Happy to explain more.
@Edent Sorry, I was in a mobile signal being shit bit so I didn't see there was an up thread.
Noted, thanks.
@Edent Teeth are *weird*, yo.
Not yours specifically, and not this CT Scan, which is awesome.
Just, a bunch of bones in our head which we use for tearing and mashing up stuff.
I shouldn't think about this, it makes me queasy. 😖
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