A lost tooth turning up in a child’s ear, and other peculiar reports in dental journals chew up this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams teams up with Harvard chemist Daniel Rosenberg, who gives dramatic readings and opinions, drawing on his own dental experience, his knowledge of chemistry and physics, and — most of all —these published dental reports:
- “The Tooth Fairy and Malpractice,” Sian Ludman, Hamid Daya, Polly S. Richards, and Adam Fox, BMJ, 2012, p. 345.
- “The Odor Emitted From Dental Floss Used on Flossed and Non-Flossed Teeth for a One Week Time Period,” F.J. Ceravolo and A. Baumhammers, Periodontal Abstracts, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter 1973, pp. 155–8.
- “Toothpick Perforation of a Colon Diverticulum: An Adjunct Autopsy Finding,” Glenn W. Wilcher, Medicine, Science and the Law, vol. 50, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 156–8.
- “An Adventurous Habit of Bottle-Cap Opening Resulting in an Endodontic-Periodontal Lesion: A Case Report,” Deepa Ponnaiyan, K. Mahalinga Bhat, and G. Subraya Bhat, Quintessence International, vol. 40, no. 6, June 2009, pp. 449–51.
- “Elevation of One Eye During Tooth Brushing,” Irene Gottlob, Sunila Jain, and Elizabeth C. Engle, American Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 134, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 459–60.
- “Extraction of a Grossly Decayed Tooth Without Local Anesthesia but with Audio Analgesia: A Case Report,” Manish Bhagania and Anirudha Agnihotry, Music and Medicine, vol. 3 no. 4, October 2011, pp. NP1–3. .
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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