Wrecking Ball Required
[ranking: 9]
From Redditor /u/DrMackDDS2014:
"One [patient in dental school] was a 36-year-old female recovering meth addict. Her teeth were so badly decayed and covered in calculus that a 'calculus bridge' had formed on the tongue side of the lower anterior teeth, essentially gluing them together. My oral surgery instructors decided that before we pulled all her teeth, I needed to debride them so as to not have pieces of calculus fall into the sockets during extraction and lead to healing issues.
When I signed in with my periodontal faculty to scale and debride her teeth, my faculty member actually told me she was jealous that I got to scrape and blast all of that sh*t off. It was like using a wrecking ball with so much junk coming off those teeth."
Mouths And Bugs Don't Mix
[ranking: 2]
From Redditor /u/WhatShouldIDoNoSleep:
"[The dentist at my mom's office] was working on a patient who rarely came to the office, as in, they'd probably see her once every few years.
I'm not even going to go into the details, but a live bug flew out of a socket in her gum, where a tooth had rotted out. A living bug. Why."
Spontaneously Shedding Teeth
[ranking: 10]
From Redditor /u/Macrat:
"An old depressed man once had so much calculi (is that the English term? The impacted hard-as-f*ck white stuff) that it covered his teeth entirely. Removing that caused two teeth to fall spontaneously because there was no more tissue to hold them."
Tooth Tomato
[ranking: 11]
From Redditor /u/0arussell:
"My mum said her boss found a tomato plant growing under a patients dentures that they never removed for three months..."
Digging For Decay
[ranking: 5]
From Redditor /u/Idontevenlikefish:
"I had a patient whose insides of his mouth was covered in layers of multicolored calculus. Black, green and red. I had to ultrasonic scale each individual tooth for a good few minutes, unearthing layers upon layers of mineralized crap. The stench was also horrendous.
At that point I wondered if I was a dentist or an archeologist."
A Gigantic Booger
[ranking: 3]
From Redditor /u/endo_ag:
"I was in dental school doing a hospital rotation. We were asked to do a dental exam on an unconscious man who had been found unconscious while high on heroin. He was going to recover, but was sedated. He was septic with a bacteria commonly found orally, (Strep veridans, perhaps). On exam we saw some very poor quality... dentistry... but there was also a thick white crust covering his extremely dry mouth and tongue.
We debated what it might be, with one guess being a severe Candida overgrowth. We cultured it and found no fungal growth under the microscope. He was brought to the dental clinic for debridement. When he came to our clinic and water was sprayed trying to clean him up, it became clear what it was. He had sinus drainage into his mouth that had dried and he essentially had a quarter inch thick layer of booger covering his mouth and throat."
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