Podcast #88: The Tooth Fairy, Smelly Dental Floss, and a Swallowed Toothpick

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. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. 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 […]

Podcast 83: Journeys of Toothbrushes

Toothbrushes journey — somehow, and other — to the depths in humanity, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams discusses medical reports about toothbrushes that mysteriously found their way into people’s stomachs and other deeply secret places. Harvard chemist Daniel Rosenberg gives dramatic readings and opinions: Toothbrush journey #1: “The Swallowing of […]

Lee Loveless: Vampire video for tooth care

The perhaps misleadingly-named Lee Loveless [pictured here] works for the UK’s National Health Service [NHS) in the city of Portsmouth. Loveless appears, in words only, in a BBC news report: Vampire video aims to help improve Portsmouth’s teeth A viral vampire video is at the centre of a new dental health campaign in Portsmouth. Inspired […]

Monkey flossing

Monkey flossing became a formal practice, at least experimentally, in the late 1970s, thanks to a dentist named Jack Caton. Twenty years later, a physician, David C Sokal, inspired by the monkey flossing, patented a top/bottom flossing-reminder and floss-dispensing device for humans. Monkeys themselves apparently began unassistedly flossing not long afterwards. But in all probability […]