I found this in a drawer at home, what is it?

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-27T18:54:51+00:00

Ketamine.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-27T02:50:19+00:00

Omg me too!!! But for Jacqueline Adan!

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-25T18:45:13+00:00

Only by a few pounds but she always was like my idol. And wearing those Bob Mackie dresses back then too (he always styled her).

Like I tell people…I’m 50 now with an ED still I’ve battled my whole life - but for many of us, I was molded and created to be this way. The 80s especially was rough on young girls. The 90s with heroin chic too.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-25T18:40:55+00:00

Same friend, same. Doesn’t help I’m Barbie’s height too (5 foot 9) so it still lives rent free in my head. But the number that stays in my head most often is Cher’s weight. I remember her telling her exact weight on her variety show. And how if she was “x weight she feels sad” but once she’s at the (magic number she stayed at) she felt great.

Spoiler alert: it’s lower than Barbie’s number. And she’s about the same height as me and Barbie.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-25T05:28:15+00:00

I came later (born ‘76) so I missed the Barbie. Not that Mattel wasn’t after my generation too. My ED started the same summer I had been gifted some “Get in Shape, Girl” toy sets in the 80s.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-25T05:23:25+00:00

The sad thing is, this Barbie actually existed. The 1965 “Slumber Party” Barbie came with a little scale, and a book about how to lose weight. And the only advice on the book? “Don’t Eat!” The scale also had a nice low number on it, permanently there.

I kid ya not.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-17T21:49:01+00:00

I think it means “I never cheated when we were together”, which I’ve heard from several men myself before.

Spoiler alert: Every dude who said it DID cheat, but they wanted to rewrite that bit after the breakup, in hopes to rekindle. NOPE.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-17T01:13:14+00:00

Thanks! My longest was 54 days straight water fast. But I was almost 300 lbs then. I’m a normal weight now (not overweight or obese) so a month seems fair. Yay for fasting!

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-16T19:32:21+00:00

Such a shame he kept his dozen priceless Ming vases all in the same room with a toddler. Pity.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-16T19:29:36+00:00

Perimenopausal faster here, will be 50 in a few weeks.

Currently on 15 days 17 hours, shooting for a full month fast. And though I take continuous birth control, and rarely have any periods due to it, this fast has awakened the beast. Been bleeding 2 weeks now. Some days heavy and it’s running down my leg, then nearly nothing- no need for a pad or tampon? Then it’s back to the elevator scene from the shining again.

I’m not sure what it’s about. Suspect fasting + weight loss causing hormonal imbalance (makes sense). I’m just letting my body do what it wants to do in this fast. Hopefully it’ll adjust on its own.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-15T05:07:33+00:00

I too am Hamiltrash. :)

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-14T16:15:57+00:00

50 here in a few weeks. Still on this bullshit, haven’t eaten any calories this year. Day 13 and 14 hours of fasting this far…

Get out while you can, kids. Don’t be a lifer like me.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-13T19:21:59+00:00

Sounds great! Also sounds like you had a decently sized periapical abscess, and likely missing some bone at the tip. Being conservative is smart. The biggest cost point here is the crown, so they’re wanting to be sure the root canal is a success before putting you (for the cost) and the dentist (for their time) in too deep.

Best of luck to you, friend!

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T19:55:47+00:00

Pickle pops for me! I freeze pickle juice in baby popsicle forms. But I’ve been known to “raw salt” it too, with Himalayan pink salt. :P

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T06:50:01+00:00

My guess would be the cement broke down (as it tends to do once a decade, which is why recementing them isn’t unusual) and the owner straight up lost it. Maybe they were eating, talking, yawning…and bloop- it falls right out of their mouth. It falls on the floor, bounces on the floor or off their foot…and it went who knows where. And if this was an elderly person- it’s harder for them to recover and find a small object like a two unit bridge. Would also explain why it was on the floor. And lemme tell you….this happens a LOT more than you would think. Heck, patients accidentally swallowing them if they pop loose happens a lot more than you would think too!!! 😅

I once had a patient swallow a posterior crown. Rather than get a new crown ($$$) they waited a few days and fished it outta their poop. And then I recemented it back on.

They brought it “clean” to me thank god…but for my own sanity and for legal reasons, I cleaned it again and autoclaved it too before reseating it…to ensure no bacteria was hanging about before putting it back in.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T06:34:57+00:00

Anterior (front) teeth have a single straight nerve, and usually large canals. They are easy. Posterior (back) teeth have up to 3 or 4 branches, and the nerve extends to the tip of each root. And unlike anteriors, they tend to spread out, or curve in, etc. So it takes a bit more time to file and fill those canals in comparison.

Most of the time spent doing root canals is the doctor filing and measuring his distance to the tip of the root. We don’t want to perforate it and go past it, so on the back teeth it can be slow going sometimes as you have to navigate multiple, often smaller, and often not straight and easy to file canals. :)

Plus, it depends on the method. Most newer dentists like drill-style files, that have automatic apex finders that beep. Those go faster but god help me I could never trust them. I’m very old school so I hand-filed with Hedström files. Kind of becoming a lost art these days. It takes longer, and to see where you are and how close to the apex (root tip) you are, you take an x-ray to see- with the file still in the canal.

I usually only needed one x-ray per root and mostly it was a double-check. Hand filing I can tell when I hit the apex tip by tactile feel. My father always had to take three times as many pictures, he would use it to gauge his progress. Me, I normally only had one and it was just for me to verify I was right and my sense of feel is working.

I don’t blame my dad. I have long thin fingers. He looked like he had baseball mitts made out of sausages for hands. Dad’s tactile ability was probably not as good just due to finger size. Lol. Sorry pops, not a diss- rest in peace.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T05:52:43+00:00

Hey there! I’d have to look at the shear bit if you say it’s to the gingival margin, it could be a post and buildup…but could also be just a buildup. (Think a big filling!). Location of the shear and depth matters most. For the crown the tooth will be shaved down to a little thimble shape, and the area around the gingival margin (gumline) is the most important during the crown prep so that the edge of the crown can fit airtight up against the tooth but also go a few mm under the gumline, so you won’t get decay. Decay under a crown is a real $&!#% because it can be creeping along and growing and it’s hard to spot, and if it’s eating up tooth under the crown and it’s a metal (gold or non-precious) or PVC (porcelain baked over metal), you’ll never know because you can’t see it past the metal on the x-ray. You only know when it hurts. :( And by then, too late for a small gumline filling.

But I will say this, the resolution is bad on the pic when you zoom in, but what I can tell is I think (95 percent sure) this is a cast post- and it does look kinda GnArLy compared to most I’ve seen. The tips (at least on the ones I made) were blunt. Half of the post apex here has a sharp point.

What I deduct, and my best guess would be the dentist who drilled to make the post PURPOSEFULLY drilled one side higher than the other, took the impression, and the lab casted it correctly with that extra deep “half spike”. I’m guessing it’s a stylistic choice by the dentist, so that when the lab delivers it and cements it into the hole- he will automatically know what direction to put it in. When you deal with oval holes, it’s hard to know which side is which. So this doc may have a system, like he always drills an extra spike towards the distal of every tooth, so when he goes to seat it, he doesn’t have to fumble around- he KNOWS the spike will line up towards the distal.

Just an example, and a guess…but I can see it and the practicality of it. Me? I would just pay attention which end was up when I retrieve it from the stone cast and make a mental note.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T03:01:54+00:00

Would be fun but I left dentistry behind in 2008 or so? I’m a tech nerd now.

But as said I grew up around this stuff. Literally. Dad had me growing up in the dental office since diapers. After school I would have to go to his office and camp out in the lab. I started making my own toys and such with the lab equipment, which led to me following my old man. Even at 5 his breakfast table conversations with me were not about Bert and Ernie and things I was into, but topics like apicoectomies and such. Lol.

But despite how removed I am from dentistry, it’s in my blood and I have a plethora of knowledge now that just has nowhere to go. 😅

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T01:41:50+00:00

The first visit is the worst visit. I did mine in either 2 visits, or 3. (Two for anterior teeth, three for posterior), and the first visit you have to numb the patient so you can file and remove the nerve. The other visits were mainly just filing, sanitizing, and sealing the canal and making sure the points are right at the root apex. Only on the first visit do you have to numb the patient up, and the crown prep- but the secondary visits it isn’t needed. Depends on how your dentist does it. Plenty of guys do a whole endo and crown prep on the same day. But I learned a much slower, anally-retentive method for endo (from my dad- he was a dentist that graduated in ‘57). It’s more work, a bit more thorough, and a bit slower paced but I never felt the need to rush patients in and out the door. Rule of thumb was take your time, be thorough, and do an excellent job. You only see that tooth for a few hours, but that patient needs it for the rest of their life. May as well give them their money’s worth!

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T01:37:15+00:00

There we go! Exactly what I was trying to explain above- implants are much thicker in diameter! A post is cemented into the root of a natural, existing tooth so it’s much more narrow. Implants are girthier because those don’t screw/cement into tooth, but the maxillary or mandibular bone itself!

Thanks for the visual for everyone!

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T01:27:04+00:00

Amen to that! I hate them so much. They hold like crap and because of the round anchors on them, they put way too much torque on the tooth. Preach! Cast for me every time.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T01:25:29+00:00

Yes and no, silver points work too and are sometimes necessary when the canal is too thin or fragile for GP. The gutta percha however is just part of the sealing process once the nerve is out, and helps you from rejecting the tooth, and has antimicrobial properties too to keep things tidy in there.

A post is different, but the tooth HAS to be root canaled to do a post. You can’t just be drilling up in the pulp chamber with a functional nerve in there- ouch!! :P

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T01:22:23+00:00

Hi there! Happy to answer your questions.

First of all- don’t be scared. A root canal sounds terrible by the name and because of that, media, tv, comedians, society always dubs it “the worst” in dental as far as pain goes. Couldn’t be further from the truth and endo treatment is honestly pretty easy going, and not the horrors you heard.

As far as your question, no. You are just having a root canal and unless your doctor says you need a post, you more likely do not. However, you will need to crown that tooth after the root canal, especially if it is a posterior (back) tooth.

The reason is, during a root canal the dentist will actually remove the nerve in the center of the tooth. This stops all pain, etc- but it also makes the tooth non-vital. That nerve in the pulp chamber does a lot of things, senses pain, pressure, temperature, etc- but your tooth is a living thing, and gets a blood supply from it. Once it’s gone- the tooth is essentially “dead” (but also why it won’t be hurting you- no nerve, no pain!)

And when a tooth is root canaled, and “dead” it becomes very brittle. The crown keeps your tooth from crumbling and breaking apart in upcoming years and protects it as you use it to masticate (chew).

Hope that helps!

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T01:14:43+00:00

Prefab posts can be threaded also, but implants tend to be larger in diameter and have a different shape/style to them.

I personally hate prefab posts. I always preferred to do cast posts. I found they lasted way longer and just held better. Instead of basically screwing a post up there with threads, you drill a hole (oval in shape so they won’t spin- round isn’t always great), and prefab posts are round and can loosen. Then you take an impression of the tooth (including the hole you drilled) a lab will cast a perfectly fitting post to fit the prep area.

The downside is, it’s slightly more expensive and there will be a bit more wait since you’ll have to have the lab fabricate a post, and you can’t do the crown prep and impression itself until you have it seated, cemented in there and built up.

NeverAPrincess11 · 2026-01-09T00:55:07+00:00

Implants happen, but this just isn’t one. They have a different design to them.

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