Re: Josef Fritzl's cellar lacked oxygen


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comadrejo wrote:
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earthage <earthage2002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

earthage wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/josef_fritzl/1944615/Josef-Frit
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-Fritzel's-cellar-lacked-oxygen.html
Josef Fritzl's cellar lacked oxygen
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
The Telegraph
Last Updated: 6:56PM BST 10/05/2008

Police said the cellar was damp and covered in mildew and that as a
result its inhabitants were now suffering from fungal infections.

They said Elisabeth Fritzl, 42, and her children appear to have
survived entirely on deep frozen foods Fritzl bought at distant
supermarkets to avoid detection and that they are unlikely to have
eaten fresh vegetables.

I read in a German newspaper that Elisabeth has only three teeth left,
actually
stumps and they are black.

Even though it is expensive, she can get ceramic dental implants, and
if
she has dental records before her imprisonment, they can do pretty good
copies of her teeth. The implants are attached to her jawbone, and I
knew someone's father who got them over the years.. They aren't false
teeth of the polydent ads..

I think the success of that kind of thing depends on how much the
jawbone itself has receded. You know how many elderly people's mouth is
sunk way in - it is more than just having their dentures out. The bone
itself, when it is no longer required to support teeth, begins to
diminish. After a while hooking anything into it, like tooth implants,
is less likely to be viable.


Elisabeth may have have some bone density problems or most likely
Osteomalacia, but she is young enough to be a good candidate for this
procedure. Ditto for her daughter and her teenage son. If there is
still some problems with her jaw, she can get some bone grafts, or have
the procedure in a couple years after a proper diet and exercise helps
her physical well being and her bone density.

Basically my point is that there are some medical procedures to help
repair some of the damages to her imprisonment, that she will not be
stared at when she goes shopping or walks around town. I remember
reading when she went to the hospital for the first time, the doctors
thought she looked like a women in her 60s who has been
institutionalized. Some of the physical damage may be irreversible,
but I think she can get her teeth fixed that she can smile again.


I wonder if she would be up to any of this *emotionally*? Being tied to
doctors and hospital rooms could be much like being inprisoned in the cellar
again. On a very minute scale, I can take just so much of some treatment
thingie, and then I want/need to be free from all intrapments. The stress
and anxiety of it all become too much.

I agree with what Poe mentioned. It depends upon how much of the structure
under the teeth is damaged. It sounds like it would be an extremely long
and painful process for someone who has already endured a quarter centruy of
pain and endurance. I would think her children perhaps might be good
candidates, what with their lifetimes, so to speak, ahead of them. :(

td


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