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04/10/2012 20:56 #56343
Not the Birth CertificateCategory: life
04/10/2012 20:46 #56342
My first music program - May 1986Category: programming
04/10/2012 20:43 #56341
May 15th, 1986 - Heavy Hangs The mortgageCategory: journals
04/10/2012 14:52 #56339
Dentists SucksCategory: health
I have had way too many dental xrays over the years. I had them yearly as a child. Then as an adult I have had to many. Everytime, I ask if it is safe and they say the dose is so low it couldn't hurt anyone. Last year I got two panoramas. When I switched dentists, the other one insisted on a second panoramic with their machine.
Now a study comes out saying they cause brain tumors.
It makes it sound like they hadn't really done many studies in the past either.
I wish I could take back all of the cat scans and xrays I have had. None of them found anything useful that didn't require manual evaluation. E.g. when they thought I had crohn's I had the cat scan followed by the colonscopy which "confirmed." When it was obvious my appendix had to come out, can scan again. When I was a kid and choked on a carrot, chest xray, when I got hit by a bottle someone kicked in college, chest xray, which they fucked up and had to do twice. Enough dental xrays that I couldn't even count them,
I think I am just going to say no more xrays for the rest of my life unless I am broken in car accident or something. Honestly, I feel safer with exploratory surgery, lol.
Now a study comes out saying they cause brain tumors.
It makes it sound like they hadn't really done many studies in the past either.I wish I could take back all of the cat scans and xrays I have had. None of them found anything useful that didn't require manual evaluation. E.g. when they thought I had crohn's I had the cat scan followed by the colonscopy which "confirmed." When it was obvious my appendix had to come out, can scan again. When I was a kid and choked on a carrot, chest xray, when I got hit by a bottle someone kicked in college, chest xray, which they fucked up and had to do twice. Enough dental xrays that I couldn't even count them,
I think I am just going to say no more xrays for the rest of my life unless I am broken in car accident or something. Honestly, I feel safer with exploratory surgery, lol.
Deeper - 06/09/13 20:04
I just completely agree with you, there are ways too many x-rays and the whole thing is often as dangerous as ridiculous, for example :
* They always do some comparison with natural radioactivity, but a 1/10 second blast close to your sensitive organs with an equivalent power of lets say one our at 12'000 meters is just 24*3600*10 times more powerful and concentrated so it could completely saturate the possibilities of DNA correction!
* Sometimes you got protection some other time not, for the same x-rays! I asked once and I got the leaded protection with a amused laugh from the dentist (may be thinking what a chicken), otherwise nothing, forget it 10 seconds effort with a lead blanket is not a valuable effort (especially because it's not on the bill, it should be on the bill : lead protection on = 1$, so we'll get it every times).
* Some x-rays, the worst (panoramic) can't have protection for the thyroïd, because it interfere with the image quality (poor image quality, it's already not as good as bite-wing x-rays and can't detect small decays, so it sort of looks more like a toy, a bit like panoramic photography for landscapes, great views + you can examine some eventual problems with the neck arteries, great I don't want my dentist to mingle with my arteries). And on the top : panoramic, I saw 19 (to be crossed checked) times more radiation than bite-wings + no thyroid protection (probably a factor 10), so it probably blast the thyroid with 190 more x-rays than a bite-wing x-ray! Great, thanks to the technology and the beautiful images that create more problems than they solve!
* Trying to have some sort of control when fully horizontal almost unable to speak with someone specialist mister know it all better than you is almost impossible except if ready to scream, eventually jump of and never come back again! So some preparation must be done before!
* Last point (could add many more) : I think patient - dentist communication got much worst lately compared to what it was 50 years ago, mainly because :
o people look more like "objects" now : more image work, more submissive position (horizontally helpless), this is definitively not empowering the patients.
o dental assistants do a lot of work now, looking around, cleaning etc, so it's less human contact with the dentist, so automatically less empathy and it's easier to impose things on people when you don't have empathy for them.
So except having perfect teeth (growing, cleaning, nurturing) strategies and never going there what can we do ?
* Select a good dentist before hand, the best is probably to know directly a few people going there and be satisfied with their feed-backs.
* If networking fails a strict inquiry (www + phone) could be fruitful, but it's probably necessary to sample quite a few (10 ?).
* Networking is good because it also gives some sort of protection against possible abuse that would be automatically dispatched in the network, but on the other-hand most people seem to leave their brain in at home when the go to the dentist, so with some (90%?) dentist having strong ideas about what should be done or not imply a personality conflict, and you don't want to be in conflict with somebody that uses sharp tools in your mouth, so most people once in the submissive position tend to agree with anything, so we need good strategies to resist without upsetting the half-god hovering above you! Yes it's how it feels! And it would be very appreciated to have some suggestion about efficient communication strategies when half handicapped by the procedure (notice that the most important question always come when you are the most incapacitated :,open mouth, horizontal .... "sign here please", Yes it happens!)
@ExBuffalonian
"Some studies may link dental x-rays to brain tumors, but the same could be said for cell phones" Yep so we have accumulation of problem, so it's even more important to be extra careful.
"... some other group publishes a study that says they don't." : look what's the interest of the bigBucks, bigBucks always want more and obstacles between are not important, on the other hand no bigBucks involved with the whistle blower.
I just completely agree with you, there are ways too many x-rays and the whole thing is often as dangerous as ridiculous, for example :
* They always do some comparison with natural radioactivity, but a 1/10 second blast close to your sensitive organs with an equivalent power of lets say one our at 12'000 meters is just 24*3600*10 times more powerful and concentrated so it could completely saturate the possibilities of DNA correction!
* Sometimes you got protection some other time not, for the same x-rays! I asked once and I got the leaded protection with a amused laugh from the dentist (may be thinking what a chicken), otherwise nothing, forget it 10 seconds effort with a lead blanket is not a valuable effort (especially because it's not on the bill, it should be on the bill : lead protection on = 1$, so we'll get it every times).
* Some x-rays, the worst (panoramic) can't have protection for the thyroïd, because it interfere with the image quality (poor image quality, it's already not as good as bite-wing x-rays and can't detect small decays, so it sort of looks more like a toy, a bit like panoramic photography for landscapes, great views + you can examine some eventual problems with the neck arteries, great I don't want my dentist to mingle with my arteries). And on the top : panoramic, I saw 19 (to be crossed checked) times more radiation than bite-wings + no thyroid protection (probably a factor 10), so it probably blast the thyroid with 190 more x-rays than a bite-wing x-ray! Great, thanks to the technology and the beautiful images that create more problems than they solve!
* Trying to have some sort of control when fully horizontal almost unable to speak with someone specialist mister know it all better than you is almost impossible except if ready to scream, eventually jump of and never come back again! So some preparation must be done before!
* Last point (could add many more) : I think patient - dentist communication got much worst lately compared to what it was 50 years ago, mainly because :
o people look more like "objects" now : more image work, more submissive position (horizontally helpless), this is definitively not empowering the patients.
o dental assistants do a lot of work now, looking around, cleaning etc, so it's less human contact with the dentist, so automatically less empathy and it's easier to impose things on people when you don't have empathy for them.
So except having perfect teeth (growing, cleaning, nurturing) strategies and never going there what can we do ?
* Select a good dentist before hand, the best is probably to know directly a few people going there and be satisfied with their feed-backs.
* If networking fails a strict inquiry (www + phone) could be fruitful, but it's probably necessary to sample quite a few (10 ?).
* Networking is good because it also gives some sort of protection against possible abuse that would be automatically dispatched in the network, but on the other-hand most people seem to leave their brain in at home when the go to the dentist, so with some (90%?) dentist having strong ideas about what should be done or not imply a personality conflict, and you don't want to be in conflict with somebody that uses sharp tools in your mouth, so most people once in the submissive position tend to agree with anything, so we need good strategies to resist without upsetting the half-god hovering above you! Yes it's how it feels! And it would be very appreciated to have some suggestion about efficient communication strategies when half handicapped by the procedure (notice that the most important question always come when you are the most incapacitated :,open mouth, horizontal .... "sign here please", Yes it happens!)
@ExBuffalonian
"Some studies may link dental x-rays to brain tumors, but the same could be said for cell phones" Yep so we have accumulation of problem, so it's even more important to be extra careful.
"... some other group publishes a study that says they don't." : look what's the interest of the bigBucks, bigBucks always want more and obstacles between are not important, on the other hand no bigBucks involved with the whistle blower.
metalpeter - 04/12/12 19:00
The Concentration of High Magnetic waves.... Kinda like how sickness around those same kind of power lines occurs...
The Concentration of High Magnetic waves.... Kinda like how sickness around those same kind of power lines occurs...
ExBuffalonian - 04/12/12 16:50
Some studies may link dental x-rays to brain tumors, but the same could be said for cell phones. For every study that says they do cause brain tumors, some other group publishes a study that says they don't. And no one seems to be tossing out their iphones.
Some studies may link dental x-rays to brain tumors, but the same could be said for cell phones. For every study that says they do cause brain tumors, some other group publishes a study that says they don't. And no one seems to be tossing out their iphones.
metalpeter - 04/10/12 16:58
In Terms of Dentists I don't get it... But for any trauma it makes sense so you can see if soreness is sore or if ribs and stuff are cracked or broken or what ever I think the other scans are ok just not x-rays....
In Terms of Dentists I don't get it... But for any trauma it makes sense so you can see if soreness is sore or if ribs and stuff are cracked or broken or what ever I think the other scans are ok just not x-rays....
tinypliny - 04/10/12 16:07
The question is where are dentist lists? Or are they not in the practice of making loss making lists?
The question is where are dentist lists? Or are they not in the practice of making loss making lists?
04/08/2012 21:22 #56335
Cheesy Brown Rice Gratin with Zucchini and eggplantCategory: food
This was served at waster dinner at my aunts house today. The recipe was delicious and vegetarian for anyone interested, here is the recipe.
tinypliny - 04/09/12 21:43
With all that went in, it almost seems odd to call it vegetarian.
With all that went in, it almost seems odd to call it vegetarian.
Aww, you would have been so fun teach. You writing is pretty darn good... I wish my students wrote that well.