Dental Implant Removal

Yesterday I had my tooth #9 dental implant removed. More about the whys in a later post, having some thoughts about throwing together a power point presentation or something with all the gory details.

Anyway, KUDOS to Andy Kessler's book The End of Medicine: How Silicon Valley (and Naked Mice) Will Reboot Your Doctor Because of his book, I was very aware of medical imaging technology (CAT, MRI, PET, etc). Consequently, I asked for a CAT scan given the nature of my dental implant situation - infection very near the site but apparent lack of any inflammation at the implant itself. The dentist agreed.

As you might see in the attached photo, we found:

• void behind the implant that was not showing up in the normal x-rays
• extremely thin bone in front of the implant that was not showing up in the normal x-rays
• a hole in the bone at "the root" of the implant

BONUS - something weird going on with an old root canal a few teeth over.

Although it wiped out my remaining dental insurance, the root canal was retreated first.

Two weeks later I had the implant removal done, finding source of infection, a bone lesion, etc.

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Subprime Mess

Harvard Economics Professor Greg Manikiw briefly blogged about the looming economic mess.

Confused about what has been happening in the markets? This Primer explains all the key issues. Current [Harvard Econ] EC 10 students will see that the story told here is similar to that told by John Campbell in his guest lecture last week.

The extremely funny primer is here

CAUTION:
(a) Empty mouth of all fluids prior to viewing. It is really funny.
(b) Language used throughout the slide set may not be suitable for children.

OPINION: I'm annoyed with the looming congressional bailout of both those who received "Liar's Loans" and also the Really Smart Guys who have foisted this situation on us. I fear that we will suffer yet more government regulation similar to SOX.