O.T. Don't ask me how I know...

It is a good idea to have one of those rectangular plastic lights for mouth holding. Especially when changing jets in your sled at 20 below, you really don't want a metal one then. I have an old Kryptonite lite that has been in my teeth so much it looks like a dogs chewy toy.

 

On my small mag-lite I have a pice of rubber ose that slips over the barrel. Makes for a nice bite plate. I've got a permanent bridge from upper eye tooth the the other eyetooth. At least the dentist called it an "emergency" procedure so insurancwe covered it!

I've seen the results of the gasoline in the washer trick. Not a pretty sight.



jerry

 

now THAT is hilarious. i can picture, in my head, the vac going into orbit.



i've done plenty of stupid things in the garage but none realy come to mind right now. they must not have cause a very serious injury. there was this one time though. i was at work at the suspension shop, i used to work at, and i'm pulling the rear leaf springs out of a heavy duty one ton Chevy utitlity truck. we worked in 4 1/2' deep "pits" that you drove the vehicles over so you could stand under them while working on them. i'm off in the back corner of the shop away from where everyone else was working at the time. i got the bolts out and the U-bolts cut. the spring is big enough that i probably should get someone to help me lift it off the axle and out of the pit onto the floor. i figure, to hell with it, i can handle it. so i work the spring off the axle and i'm holding it about chest height in front of me. i go to give it a toss up onto the floor. well, the one end catches the inside of the lower edge of the bed, causing the spring to rotate around as it's flying through the air. the same end that hit the inside of the bed swings around and hits me in the BACK of the head so hard i drop like a bag of rocks. luckily the spring managed to land on the rail that the truck was parked on and DID'NT fall back into the pit on me as i was laying curled up in the featle position BARELY concious, holding my blood soaked welders beany to my head. i was only laying there a minute (i think) when one of the other guys happened by and say me on the ground. he called my name, but i could'nt respond. the next thing i know i hear him yelling for the boss, "Charlie, get over here, BRIMM IS DEAD!!!". the two of them carried me up out of the pit and sat me down in the break room to rest for a while. just till i felt a little better so i could go BACK TO WORK .

our boss, Charlie was (is) a super smart guy when it comes to engineering type stuff, especialy where suspensions are concerned but he was always hurting himself. shorlty before i started there he had SMASHED half of his face a skull when a coil spring he was trying to compress in an air vise came loos and hit him square in the face!!! several plastic surgeries later he was still ugly as ever . it actually SHATTERED his eye socket!!

another time, just miutes after i left for the day. he was helping the second shift guys get a SUPER BIG garbage truck up in the air using an I-beam (that was around for just this purpose) and a couple chain falls. well, the I-beam slipped off that section of the frame they were lifting the truck from and landed on a higher section of the frame. problem was, the boss had his hand resting on the I-beam and it was now pinned between a truck that weighed umpteen TONS and a very heavy duty steel I-beam. it NEARLY severed his hand in half. he went through EXTENSIVE surgeries and rehabilitation to regain about 85% use of that hand . he does'nt work out in the shop so much anymore. they gave him a job answering phones. probably cause his wife said they had to or she'd kick all their asses ...

 

Pick away. I like having my own teeth and in pain-free good working order. .
No implant. My Dr. says she can save it so that a crown will be used. I sheered the tooth laterally with the sheer going below the gum line. So it involved first a root canal, then gum surgery with 4-6 weeks for heeling before construction of the crown. There has been a fair amount of engineering involved with this. Plus "gum surgery" didn't fully prepare me for just what sort of cutting they were going to be doing in there.

I'm fortunate to have acess to high quality medical care here. I don't carry dental insurance so this is strictly out of pocket and it isn't cheap.

Imagine, all this just for unbolting the spare tire carrier from a truck to sell to someone for about $60. The economics just don't add up in my favor.

It's going to run me about $4000. by the time I've got the new crown screwed into my head. Just don't ask me how I know this.

Kids! Look and Learn!

 

I've shattered two teeth while skating and going to the dentist is no fun. Atleast yours is a hot babe.

 

Hey Kyle..., show the folks a photo (poster) of your dental team...!!!