Re: Molding a saddle out of epoxy

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 17:00:14 -0500, "Geezer" <NOSPAM@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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>"Ken Cashion" <kcashion@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:48:11 -0700, "David Enke"
>> <putw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
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>>>"Ken Cashion" <kcashion@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 10:29:13 -0600, Misifus <raf_seibert@xxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, and I had a burr on my Dremel...and it turns maybe 25
>> Krpm. I can do without the smell but I wish there was some way I
>> could watch the dentist and see what he sees...like on a TV monitor. I
>> always want to know what they are doing to me and if I can see it, I
>> have a better chance of understanding.
>> Drills in my mouth don't bother me. I know what they are
>> doing because I work in close quarters with mirrors and lots of dust
>> and whirling, too.
>>
>> Ken
>
>Ken,
>I had the singular pleasure of breaking a tooth while in Mexico in the
>Summer of '04 and had to go to a dentist in Aguascalientes, MX. Let's just
>say that all sorts of horrors were going through my head until I finally
>met the doc.
>
>He put a helmet on my head that allowed me to watch everything that he was
>doing! Even the Xylocaine dispenser he had was computerized...it would count
>down while dispensing the anesthetic and let him know when to move to
>another location...in English & Spanish! The needle itself was so small that
>I could barely see it.
>He notice a fracture in the glue joint of an adjacent crown and removed and
>replaced the old glue.
>He popped off the crown and removed the damaged adhesive around/under the
>post.
>He didn't use a drill for this part...he used an ultrasonic drill that broke
>loose all of the damaged adhesive so it could be replaced.
>MAN! Was I ever impressed with this guy's work. A temporary crown and a
>repair to another crown...total cost $220 USD and I got to watch the whole
>thing.
>
>I now have his phone number in my little black book.

I know what you mean. Many of my relatives had their dentists
in Nuevo Laredo.
Quite a while back when their high quality, low cost of
dentistry was just becoming known, there was a story where a family
had come back across the river at Laredo and the Border guy asked the
usual fruit, alcohol, type questions and the father was saying the
general "noes" and the patrolman said, "OK, nothing to declare then,"
and he was starting to flag them through when a little kid in the back
seat announced, "We didn't get anything but Grandpa's new teeth."
The patrolman smiled and said, "Well, now...that does make a
difference, doesn't it? Pull right over here, please, Sir." <g>

Ken
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