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Every night before bed time, tooth brushing is Xiaoyi's most exciting moment in a day. Tooth brushing seems to be his game instead of an task of protecting his new grown-tooth. Once seeing the brush, Xiaoyi swiftly runs to it, begging to have the brush. Right after dad gave him the brush, he happily runs away. No matter how loudly dad shout ,"sit down when you brush", he just pretends not to hear any thing and keeps running through different rooms. His drills drop off onto his chest and floor...
This is a fossil shark tooth that someone I know collects. He knows everything about the the species, variations, and anatomy. Very impressive. And a little bizarre...
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ODC 2: Bizarre
I have to admit, I'm a touch squeamish. I have no desire to inflict pain upon my child. So with this, his second loose baby tooth, it took two nights of wrangling and wriggling...and still, it was he who did the deed and yanked this little sucker out. My brave little man.
My boy lost his first tooth and of course I managed to convince him that if I take photo of him, Tooth Fairy will be more than generous and certainly she was.
So here we go, Matteo with his (allegedly) cutest smile posing for daddy.
Prints: fineartamerica.com/featured/sabre-tooth-pounce-daniel-esk...
Kicking up a spray of dirt, a massive smilodon, a mountain of fur and fangs, leaps out of the murky mists of time. With its muscular frame, razor sharp claws, and long curved teeth, this predator is a force to be reckoned with.
Androdon aequatorialis
Parque Nacional Natural La Ensenada de Utría, Chocó department, Colombia.
Male. A close-up shot showing the serrations on the bill that give this species its name. I have never seen an explanation as to what the purpose of this morpholgical feature is.
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well my back chipped dead wisdom tooth is anyway. i am putting off a visit to the dentist, because, well i cant afford it, but i think im going to have to swallow my pride and go. i brought the little tooth mirror and can see my tooth is rotting- oops, and it is of course killing me. happy days.
I was bummed when my dentist wouldn't give me my first wisdom tooth after extraction, so when I went in for another one, I made sure I asked him to save it for me. I knew he'll have to drill into the tooth and it will come out in pieces. I thought to myself, I'll just piece them back together like a puzzle. What I didn't know was, that the drill bit isn't exactly small and a good portion of the tooth will be missing after the extraction. At the end, this tooth was in four pieces and a quarter of it (the back side that you don't see here) was gone! I am glad that I still have some wisdom, even though I don't have it inside me now, lol.
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A selection of toothbrushes. Y'all know Philip Starck, made for Floucaril (France) but the ones on the top right are also from Floucaril ( I gave one to Sylvia Katz the authority on Plastics). Real beauties. Top center are 3 little delights - l'il rockets! - Gorgeous! Mid-lower are by Paul Smith. Left are no-name from SuperDrug, the other two, well, nothing special.
plasticgoodies at Etsy
This has been growing into my jawbone for years. After it was removed earlier today, I was in the dentist's waiting room, when out of the blue, the nurse presented me with a plastic jar. It contained this fleshy specimen, plus the other wisdom tooth they removed at the same time. It looked like something off CSI.
"Um, thanks", I said, in a somewhat confused state as she walked away.
I had to take a picture before I chuck it out, since it's so revolting.
Hope no one has been sick… It certainly turned my stomach.
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 - sperm whale skeleton (real). (public display, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Rayleigh, North Carolina, USA)
Mammals are the dominant group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today. The group is defined based on a combination of features: endothermic (= warm-blooded), air-breathing, body hair, mother's milk, four-chambered heart, large brain-to-body mass ratio, two teeth generations, differentiated dentition, and a single lower jawbone. Almost all modern mammals have live birth - exceptions are the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, both of which lay eggs.
Mammals first appear in the Triassic fossil record - they evolved from the therapsids (mammal-like reptiles). Mammals were mostly small and a minor component of terrestrial ecosystems during the Mesozoic. After the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction at 65 million years ago, the mammals underwent a significant adaptive radiation - most modern mammal groups first appeared during this radiation in the early Cenozoic (Paleocene and Eocene).
Three groups of mammals exist in the Holocene - placentals, marsupials, and monotremes. Other groups, now extinct, were present during the Mesozoic.
Whales are members of Order Cetacea, which includes the dolphins and porpoises. Cetaceans have intermediate- to very large-sized bodies that are streamlined (cigar-shaped) and have a thick blubber layer for heat insulation purposes. They are evolutionarily derived from terrestrial mammals that had four legs. The former front legs are now flippers. The hind legs are highly reduced and non-functional in whales. The skull is elongated, with one or two blowholes atop the head. The tail is horizontally-oriented, unlike the vertically-oriented caudal fin ("tail") of a fish. Vertical movement of a whale's tail provides propulsion. Whale bodies have a soft outer skin layer with almost no hair - this improves water flow around the body.
Whales are famous for being deep and long divers. Sperm whales can dive to over 9,200 feet deep. Northern bottlenose whales can hold their breath for over two hours. Unlike humans, whales have evolved mechanisms for coping with diving diseases such as nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness.
Cetaceans are subdivided into two groups - the mysticete and the odontocete whales. Mysticete whales are the baleen whales - they include the blue whale, finback whale, humpback whale, gray whale, right whale, minke whale, sei whale, etc. The odontocetes are the toothed whales and include the sperm whale, killer whale, dolphins, porpoises, and belugas. Toothed whales have smaller bodies than the baleen whales. They have one blowhole atop the head and have prominent teeth - they feed on fish and squid and other large animals.
The skeleton shown above is a sperm whale, the largest modern species of toothed whale.
From museum signage:
"Wrinkled skin, a huge head, and an off-center spout make a sperm shale easy to identify. They can grow to 60 feet and weigh as much as 64 tons. This species it the most numerous of all great whales, with an estimated two million inhabiting the world's deepest oceans.
Sperm whales can dive as deep as a mile and stay underwater for up to an hour. They eat mainly squids and octopuses. These whales were hunted extensively in the 18th and 19th centuries for the high-quality oil found only in the head of this species.
Each day, an average male sperm whale will eat more than a ton of squid. Like all toothed whales, the sperm whale uses echolocation to find food in the deep, dark sea. It sends out loud clicking sounds that reflect off objects and produce echoes that the whale hears and interprets.
This sperm whale washed ashore at Wrightsville Beach in 1928. Some 50,000 people from six states flocked here to see it. The tourism boom ended when the whale began to decay. It raised a stink that cleared the beach, becoming a health hazard as well as a public nuisance. Locals called the whale "Trouble", and it lived up to its name - particularly for the museum, which wanted the whale's skeleton for display.
Moving the whale wasn't an easy task. First the 54-foot, 100,000 pound whale had to be towed to an uninhabited beach. Towing cables broke and the whale was nearly lost in the rough sea. Once onshore, Trouble washed off the beach and onto a nearby shoal where it stayed until stripped of most of its flesh.
Trouble's bones were buried for a total of 16 months [on a beach for six months and again at the fairgrounds in Raleigh for ten months] so that natural processes could remove the rest of its flesh. Then it took another two years to clean and assemble the bones for exhibit.
Museum director H.H. Brimley, who coordinated the effort to obtain Trouble, and his assistant spent nearly two years preparing and assembling Trouble's bones for display. In 1930, Trouble's skeleton was hung in the museum. At the time, only three other adult sperm whales were on display in the United States.
Early sailors scratched and inked designs in the teeth of sperm whales, a craft called scrimshaw. Oil from the whale's head and ambergris, a waxy substance found in its intestines, were used as perfume fixatives.
Sperm whales have a social structure based largely on reproductive habits. Females and juveniles form groups of 25 to 40 animals - "nursery schools". During breeding season, a male joins the nursery school, which temporarily becomes a harem. After breeding, males leave the harems and form "bachelor schools".
Sperm whales migrate, usually in groups separated primarily by sex and age. Pregnant and nursing females and their young migrate between temperate and tropical waters. Males range farther north, venturing into warm waters only during breeding season.
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Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Cetacea, Odontoceti, Physeteridae
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See info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm_whale
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toothed_whale
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i found this sharks (?) tooth on a vacant block of land about 800m from the shoreline. High up on a sand dune / hill.
Made for my son's first loose tooth thanks to the great tutorial at mmmcrafts.blogspot.com/2009/02/tooth-pillow-revisited.html
I got a wisdom tooth pulled last week. After looking at it, I'm surprised that I hardly felt anything. Note the chunk of my gums still attached in the front. I took this immediately after I got home. A couple of hours later, the gum had gotten all shriveled and gross.
Having a tooth extracted can be a worrying experience. Yet, the recuperation process doesn’t need to be! There are some measures you can take (and a couple of things to keep away from) to make your recuperation process quicker and comfortable.
Simply take after these tips, and you'll be up and smiling again in the blink of an eye.
What's in store after surgery?
Comprehending what's in store can expel a ton of the uneasiness that accompanies one when they have after-surgery in mind. Commonly, a day after surgery, you may encounter some pain and some swelling around your eyes and cheeks. This swelling can last up to 72 hours after surgery.
To limit any #distress and #swelling, apply an ice pack to your jaw for 20 minutes; and then remove it for 20 minutes. You can rehash this a couple of times each day for the initial 48 hours. (Tip: you can use a zipped plastic bag with broken ice if you don't have an ice pack.) After 48 hours, treatment with ice won’t be very effective, so change it, to utilizing a warm pack to ease torment or swelling.
After wisdom teeth extraction, you can expect some bleeding for the initial couple of hours. Starting every 2 to 3 hours after your surgery, change the bandage at the surgery site every 30-60 minutes and control bleeding by firmly biting down on it. Proceed with this treatment until the point the #bleeding stops.
What to do to help the recuperating procedure?
Normally, it will take two weeks to a month for the surgical site to heal. To help this procedure, here are some things you can do:
Keep your mouth clean – It's alright to brush your teeth the day of your surgery, yet hold up until the following day to rinse your #mouth. From that point on, utilize a container (8oz) of warm water blended with a teaspoon of salt to carefully wash your mouth no less than 5 to 6 times each day and particularly after dinners.
Take medication – Use any pain killers prescribed by your specialist to control the pain. If your dentist prescribes anti-biotics, make a point to finish the dosage as apportioned.
Use a tea bag – Tea has tannic corrosive, which contracts veins and decreases bleeding. Put a wet tea bag on the surgical site and bite down firmly for around 20 to 30 minutes.
Get lots of rest – It's critical to shun any physical action for the initial 24 hours after surgery. Hoist your head up with some comfortable pads while resting and abstain from sleeping on the side as your extraction.
Resume your typical cleanliness routine – After the initial 24 hours, you can come back to your ordinary brushing and flossing schedule. Simply make sure to avoid the surgical area. As of now you can continue wearing any orthodontic retainer you are utilizing. In the event that it causes distress, you can wait for seven days to start your orthodontic treatment again.
Watch your diet – In the start, eat soft and cold foods like smoothies, dessert, yogurt, and pudding.
What not to do after wisdom tooth removal
Following are some tips to follow after wisdom tooth removal:
Try not to use straws – It's essential not to dislodge the blood clot that has formed in the socket or you could encounter a condition known as dry attachment. Try not to rinse your mouth too rigorously, suck on a straw, or drink carbonated refreshments for the initial 24 hours.
Try not to smoke or drink liquor – Do not smoke or consume alcohol for no less than 48 hours after surgery and ideally not for the whole week.
Try not to clean out your nose – This can be a hard one in case you're encountering any nasal problems or stuffiness. For the initial 14 days, just delicately wipe your nose without really blowing.
Try not to eat hard-to-chew foods– Foods, for example, oats, nuts, or popcorn can be exceptionally hard to eat after an extraction and may wound sensitive tissues. Sit tight for a week or so before you include them again into your menu.
By following these simple do's and don'ts after wisdom tooth extraction, you ought to be just fine in a short period of time.