The Life of NHL Dentists

Post by soperj » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:24 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #27

THansenite wrote: post #6

Playing rec league years ago, I had always played with a full cage. I decided to go with a half visor to be one of the cool kids. Went to my local shop and it was a bit more expensive than I had planned so I figured I'd wait until the next week to buy it. That week, I took two pucks to the cage. I never did go back to buy the visor.

I wonder why the 50/50 ones (visor top with cage underneath) aren’t more popular? Juniors/Women I think are required to wear regular cages but for recreational players you’d think more would wear that type? I got a used pro players helmet from my team for $20 after the season (they sell off all their gear to fans) which is great bargain for a really nice piece of equipment - but I wouldn’t dare playing games with it…

Post by soperj » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:30 PM UTC

jdpedrie wrote: post #12

psychometry wrote: post #5

Last I checked, college and professional women's leagues mandated face protection. Why don't men's?

The cage makes it harder to see the game at your feet. There's also just the culture of hockey. The last un-helmeted NHL player didn't retire until 1997. Referees often didn't wear them for some time thereafter. I remember one ref, Kerry Fraser, who retired in 2010, who refused to wear a helmet so as to not mess up his famously coiffed hair. The NHL did recently mandate visors for all new players entering the league;…

Post by lawnchair_larry » Thu, Nov 07, 2019, 11:39 PM UTC

soperj wrote: post #31

evo_9 wrote: post #26

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Yeah that incident with Chara happened around the same time as mine; I had a playoff game a few nights later and played. I really love hockey so it takes a lot to keep me off the ice, which I guess probably seems pretty 'insane' to non-hockey folks. One other thing... the night it happened, the game was at 10:30 and there really isn't anything the emergency room visit can do other than provide pain meds etc. So I jus…

As someone who's broke their jaw twice from pucks to the face, yours and Chara's had to be a hairline fracture. There's absolutely no way I could have played with a broken jaw. It was over 2 months of having my mouth wired shut ( liquid diet - lost 55 pounds) plus plate in my chin. It's still painful when I get a puck/stick to the cage over 15 years later.

Post by tashoecraft » Fri, Nov 08, 2019, 12:17 AM UTC

m463 wrote: post #24

smacktoward wrote: post #13

Back in colonial times, a common part of two people getting married was the bride's father paying to have all her teeth pulled and replaced with a set of false teeth -- because the state of dental hygiene was so bad then that it was just assumed that she would lose all her teeth eventually, and that way the husband wouldn't have to bear the expense of dealing with it. It was a kind of dowry. I look at those photos an…

The barber pole was originally an advertisement for surgery and more. If I recall, Red meant bloodletting, White meant teeth, Blue meant haircuts. The Joe Rogan interview with Lindsey Fitzharris was a lot of fun. (also the interviews with elon musk, john carmack)

Post by badger_bravo » Fri, Nov 08, 2019, 12:25 AM UTC

jessaustin wrote: post #8

nsxwolf wrote: post #3

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"I picked that one up and washed it off and stuck it back in; it seems to have re-rooted." I am shuddering. This is Cronenberg levels of body horror. I suppose I must have known this was how it worked, but I figured there was more to it than that and that dentists had to do something more dentist-y to make it take.

All a dentist would do would be to wipe off any large debris (as long as noxious chemicals aren't involved, you don't really even want to wash it) and then stick it back in the socket. Maybe pack some cotton rolls around it to keep it in one spot for the first 12 hours or so. Doing this on-scene ASAP is strictly better than waiting until you get to a dentist.