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[flatbutt]

That SUX!

[RNajarian]

Rockfan4,

Define “stud.”

What likely happened was the implant is what we call a screw retained implant meaning there is a fixture which has integrated into the bone. Then the crown gets screwed into that fixture and that’s what you see in the mouth. So maybe what broke was that screw that went into the fixture that is intern imbedded in the bone.

Hopefully that is the issue because sometimes they can use an ultrasonic instrument. The vibrations sometimes cause the screw to work its way out and then all you need to do is replace the screw put the crown back on and you’re finished. In a perfect world, it takes less than an hour.

If the screw is broken inside the fixture and cannot be removed, then they are going to need to remove the implant. Not a fun job, but it does happen.

And as for your wife’s dinner, depending on how the procedure goes for on Tuesday, I would play Red Lobster by ear.

Good Luck

[rockfan4]

Well, I haven't poked my head in there, but my understanding from the way she explained it, it would be that metal piece in the middle of this picture. Apparently it snapped, half is still in the implant, the other half was in the replacement tooth. Her gum has healed over and they'll have to cut that to get to the top of it.

If the screw is broken inside the fixture and cannot be removed, then they are going to need to remove the implant.

That's what we're worried about.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by oldE

Yesterday AM, Environment Canada (our National weather service) forecast three days of hot sunny weather. We make hay for our four equines, so I dropped the small field in front of the house. I figured it would give us about 70 bales. Not a lot, but a start on the 600 required to get them through the winter. This morning, tomorrow changed to showers with the possibility of thundershowers in the late morning. My wife is the hay judge so she suggested we turn it this morning, then again at noon to see if we could get it in after supper. By three o'clock, she was watching the clouds building in the west and suggested we try to get it before supper. I raked up the hay at 3:30, we hooked up the baler at 4 and started in. By 4:45 the first drops fell. We had it (79 bales of decent hay) in the barn by 5:15. Not bad for a couple of old folks.
Ever since Environment Canada got rid of their local forecasters and started doing a computer modeled regional forecast, their ability to accurately predict our local weather has gone right down the toilet. Right now we have thundershowers.
Ah the fun of hobby farming.

Best
Les

Nice! There's about 15 acres next to the house that the previous owners kept. They let a lady that lives nearby "harvest" the hay. They own the land and have an agricultural tax rating so the taxes are practically free. They don't even have to deal with the hay since the lady can have it for free if she does the work. It's a pretty good deal for them. The last 2 summers she's gotten a pretty sad return because of our extra dry weather. I think she's been harvesting trying to balance the amount of hay that she gets with the fire risk.

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Remember the girl from Jurassic Park? Ariana Richards? She's a painter now and some of her renderings are really good.

https://galleryariana.com/gallery/

I always find it interesting when someone goes from Hollywood to something else. In this case, she's still working in the arts. Hopefully, she's well adjusted, and Hollywood didn't cause any issues

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Angie & David Bowie, 1971

Very cool!

Originally Posted by flatbutt

What you do for your kid you also do for the world

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peyton-manning-jeff-johnny-agar-father-son-cerebral-palsy-ironman-world-championship/

https://johnnyagar.com/

I always love to see this sort of thing.

Originally Posted by rockfan4

My wife's birthday is Sunday.

She has a tooth implant, went to the dentist a while ago, he futzed with it, and the stud broke a day or two later when she was eating potato chips. They still haven't dug out the broken piece of the stud from the implant, that's what they're trying Tuesday. Hopefully more than trying to cut a slot in the top with a dremel and taking a screw driver to it, that sounds like something I would do. Supposedly they have a extractor tool to try, and if that doesn't work, they have to cut her jaw, remove the implant, wait for it to heal, and then do the whole thing over again. That sounds like B.S. to me.

Happy Birthday to the missus!

That must have been a hell of a chip!

Holy carp! It's bad enough having a broken stud in a mechanical situation. I would NOT want to have to futz with one in someone's mouth.

I wonder if he made a trip to the nearest Snap-On truck. LOL!

Best wishes to the missus getting her mouth fixed. Hopefully, this is free. I can't imagine anything but a material defect or possibly (pretty unlikely) an installation issue having caused a broken stud.

[Heel n Toe]

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

Informative and a bit disturbing.

[masraum]

Maui fires, Alaskas floods, and Australian Fire tornados

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-worlds-first-wildfire-tornado-blazed-a-path-of-destruction-through-australia-180982309/

here was no name for the thing Tom Bates captured on video at the height of the notorious Australian bush fire season of 2002-2003. Prior to that sweltering afternoon, there was no such thing as “pyro-tornadogenesis,” because such a phenomenon—a tornado generated by a wildfire—was not known to occur on planet Earth. Wildfires in both hemispheres often whip up small twisters known as fire whirls, but as impressive as they are to behold, and as dangerous as they are to be near, they are relatively small and short-lived events—more like dust devils than full-blown cyclones. What Bates saw and filmed from a suburban rugby pitch just outside Canberra, in southeast Australia, was different. It occurred during a historic week of lightning-caused fires that killed 4 people, injured more than 400, and destroyed 500 homes west of Australia’s capital city.

On January 18, Bates and his neighbors in the Kambah neighborhood, about five miles southwest of downtown, were on high alert because local fires had advanced to within a mile and a half of their neighborhood. Looking northward that afternoon, toward the flames, Bates observed a large funnel cloud over Mount Arawang, one of several low, tree-covered peaks in the area that are laced with walking trails and surrounded by suburban homes.

Tornadoes are not unheard of in the region, but this one appeared to be rising up out of the fire itself, like an atmospheric Balrog. It was 4 in the afternoon, the ambient temperature was nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and the air was so dark with smoke that it appeared to be nighttime. The year 2003 was before smartphones became widespread, but Bates had the presence of mind to get his video camera and record what would come to be a new kind of fire. “I’ve never in my life seen anything like it,” we hear Bates say as the funnel takes shape above the burning mountain. He struggles to describe what he is seeing, not because he lacks the words, but because no Earthling has ever witnessed what he is witnessing now: “Holy ****… Holy mackerel. It’s a big fireball. It’s gotta be rippin’ poor bastards’ houses up there.” Then, right before our eyes, Mount Arawang appears to detonate. The blinding flash, combined with the funnel cloud whirling above it, gives the impression of a nuclear blast. “Holy Jeezus,” Bates gasps. “This is bad news. It’s like a big fireball tornado.”

It is now clear that this monstrous thing, which Bates has just named, is headed directly toward him. Australians seem to have a gift for understatement, and, as the wind begins to hiss and roar through the camera mic, we hear Bates say, “This is rather frightening.” A moment later, tin roofing and other debris from the homes surrounding Mount Arawang begin clattering to earth all around him. Sticks and gravel are now flying in horizontal gusts. “I’m getting pelted with stuff. It’s stinging the daylights out of me,” he says, shortly before the video ends. “It’s just like being sandblasted.”

Unfortunately, the quality of the video is pretty low due to low light and 20 years of tech that isn't there yet, but I have a good imagination and can imagine a fire tornado. It's a pretty horrific thing to imagine. Queue a B-movie on the sci-fi channel.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

OK, the first 15-20 secs is hilarious.
< edit >
...and the laughs keep coming. If all of their videos are like this, I've got a new rabbit hole to go down.

[Steve Carlton]

Dr. Strangelove officially Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) was originally scheduled to be released on Friday, November 22, 1963. Due to JFK's assassination, it was put off until January 29, 1964.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Informative and a bit disturbing.

I thought the same thing, about it being disturbing.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by rockfan4

That's what we're worried about.

Sometimes you can hit the broken screw inside the implant with an ultrasonic tip and back it out.
Ask me how I know.

[flatbutt]

Holy hell! This is terrifying.

[A930Rocket]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Holy hell! This is terrifying.

Wow! If they ruled the gas out, what would cost such an explosion? Something legit but in stupid quantities or ???

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

Wow! If they ruled the gas out, what would cost such an explosion? Something legit but in stupid quantities or ???

Meth?

[Por_sha911]

Initially I thought meth but from the looks of the fireball color and plume, I'm wondering if someone was mixing fertilizer and fuel oil.

[Zeke]

Investigation could take months or even years? That's a quote.

Wonderful.

[stevej37]

They were surely fast to state 'gas was not the cause'
I'll bet the insurance co won't take their word for it.

They never said if the 5 dead were from the home or neighbors.

[flatbutt]

Japan surrendered.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230815/p2g/00m/0na/007000c

[Por_sha911]

Today is the 54th anniversary of the start of Woodstock

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Holy hell! This is terrifying.

Wow, the main house was reduced to a pit that used to be a basement. It looks like the 2 homes on either side were half blown up and then the other half was destroyed by fire.

That's a tragedy. 5 dead, 3 in the hospital with 1 still critical, and 3 families have lost their homes and all possessions.