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Re: The Life of NHL Dentists

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Post by OnlineGladiator »

badger_bravo wrote: post #40
jessaustin wrote: post #8

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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.

Would it still take root if it was placed in backwards? If it was someone else's tooth? a particularly well shaped rock?

It depends, but there's an issue of biocompatibility similar to any organ transplant. So no, a rock wouldn't work. The backwards tooth though is interesting - my guess is if it would fit it would stick (although it would definitely fuck up your bite).

https://myhillsdentist.com/blog/why-dont-we-do-tooth-transpl...

Re: The Life of NHL Dentists

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dang wrote: post #23
mattigames wrote: post #15

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90%... so the total cost was around 100K? Global capitalism is a funny thing, here in my country with that money you could buy an apartment and have enough money left to get the exact same treatment you got there.

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Re: The Life of NHL Dentists

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Post by lawnchair_larry »

alkonaut wrote: post #28
bsznjyewgd wrote: post #11

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Not only that, but the NHL BANS full face protection unless you're recovering from an injury. (Ex-all star Dany Heatley spent most of his career wearing a comically big half-visor after suffering a serious eye injury, I wonder if he would've opted for a full visor if given the choice.) Some players already dislike the currently mandated half-visors (visors can distort vision, or fog up, etc.) and do weird shenanigans…

The “fighting culture” in the NHL (perhaps more in the AhL and college leagues?) can’t die soon enough. It’s already better than it used to be in the 80s and 90s but there is some way to go. A good first step would be actual match penalties for proper fights. It has worked elsewhere.

There is a theory that fighting actually prevents serious injuries and concussions.

Teams have goons and enforcers. It’s the goon’s job to hurt star players. A skilled goon can lay a clean, legal, but devastating hit on your top scorer and go unpunished. If he gets him when his head is down or not paying attention, he can take him out of the game, the series, or potentially the season. It’s those hits that cause injuries and end careers.

An enforcer is hired to send a message that if you plan to incorporate injuring the star player as part of your strategy, he’s going to beat the living hell out of you.

Fights are by mutual consent, and almost never result in serious injury. But they hurt physically, and losing one hurts morale.

The league actually introduced an instigator penalty a while back, which means whoever initiated the fight is penalized. Concussions went up, because now the enforcer couldn’t do his job, or his own team suffers even more. So it was open season with cheap shots on stars.

Re: The Life of NHL Dentists

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Post by soperj »

selectodude wrote: post #33
soperj wrote: post #31

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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.

Chars had his jaw wired shut during the games after he broke it.

couldn't have been the same way as mine then, since you can't breath deeply at all with your mouth wired shut (i almost fainted while running after someone).

Re: The Life of NHL Dentists

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Post by soperj »

alkonaut wrote: post #37
soperj wrote: post #32

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Because visors suck? They fog up and if they get wet you have to clean them.

Visits are basically mandated everywhere now (just the NHL will take 10 more years while everyone else has already made them mandatory) If you are required to wear a visor anyway it feels like the version with a few bars covering the teeth/jaw can’t fog up that much more than just the visor alone?

Sorry, i meant that compared to a cage. I'd take a cage over half and half every single time.

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Post by cjaybo »

soperj wrote: post #34
jdpedrie wrote: post #12

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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;…

If you're looking at your feet, you're gonna get run over, no one in the NHL looks at their feet.

Sure they do. Not while stick handling or skating normally, but while receiving a bad pass, sending a puck between their skates while trying to out-maneuver a defender, etc. Cages affect your peripheral vision, as well.

Re: The Life of NHL Dentists

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Post by rustybelt »

selectodude wrote: post #33
soperj wrote: post #31

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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.

Chars had his jaw wired shut during the games after he broke it.

The dude came back out and sat on the bench for the third period. You could tell he wanted to get back on the ice, too.
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