#Dental bones

[nerdpoe]

Jack and Maddie Fenton die. They do not realize this.

To be fair, neither does anyone else at first.

Then they do.

And the Fentons themselves, leading experts in saying ghosts aren't sentient, become the single most valued evidence that they fucking are.

Through the Drs. Fenton, they manage to insure rights for ecto-entities, and the anti-ecto acts are repealed.

That's all well and good, but the big problem is...what to do with their kids?

The Drs. Fenton are currently buried in their obsession of science, Maddie's aunt is currently fighting the government to keep her property, and the kids' other closest relative is in Bludhaven.

So the State of Illinois sends a letter to one Dick Grayson, asking if he's cool to look after Danny and Jazz until the Unites States and an entirely different dimension work out custody and how, exactly, immigration law applies and where it does.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #story prompt #phanfic #don't think about danny and jazz genuinely not noticing that their parents were dead for months #only to realize that the bones in the vat of uncovered acid had the same dental fillings that Jack does #only to realize that their parents were so absent in their life that #even as ghosts completely swallowed by their obssession #danny and jazz saw nothing different

[shadyufo]

Shop update TOMORROW (11/25)! Just a small sample of all the goodies I'll be listing in my Etsy shop tomorrow. Not sure exactly what time yet, probably around midday central time or so. I'll post here when everything is ready to go though! <3

#vulture culture #oddities #trinkets #skulls #teeth #bones #curiosities #dental plaque #curiosity collections

[yamisiee]

Just some silly LMK drawings that I've done

#lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk macaque #lmk mayor #lmk sun wukong #sun wukong #lmk mk #lmk lady bone demon #lmk lbd #illistration #doodles #shadowpeach #drawing #i swear that man has the BEST dental care

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

#class war #class warfare #classism #dental care #wait it out #rich people bones

[brother-emperors]

like, I'm old school web comic culture, I like handmade zines that are stapled, I just want to make comics and tell stories and the ranking system of the popular webcomic sites exhaust me to my core, which is why I like tumblr. I want to draw sulla wound fingering crassus and not think about the metrics.

#that said i'm a pretty avid reader of korean webcomics and chinese webnovels when i have the money for it #unfortunately i have not had the money for that kind of thing in like. six years RIP #its part of why i dont really plan to paywall my stuff. i want to like. connect somehow. and thinking about a historical fiction comic #in terms of 'is this something someone will pay for?' over 'this is something i FELT in my BONES' kills me #and i do not mean that as an exaggeration. for like two years i was an art industry artist and it did serious critical infrastructure damag #to me. i do commissions and freelance gigs to pay the bills but all i want to do is draw comics #and hopefully! i will make comics that people will want to support through patreon or something like that! #because i would love to not think about trying to pay my bills with this but unfortunately i have student loans #also eventually i would like health insurance. tbh. or actually. dental insurance.

[fox-bright]

I'm going in for a kinda-complicated dental surgery tomorrow morning (Thursday the 12th), so though I'm going to be around through this evening, I'll be offline for a while afterward.

I'll be fine, back in my bed by midafternoon, and while I'm very afraid, I am also very grateful to at long last have access to some of the health care that I should have been given as a child. I am looking forward to having the appropriate density of teeth for my gene-disordered mouth, and to perhaps no longer bite myself every three days or so forever.

I have instructed the Magical Flying Husband to retain control of my cell phone and computer until he's quite sure that I am sober, and then I expect to be tired and in pain. I'll hopefully be back online inside a couple of days, but it may be some time longer. Wish me luck, darlings.

#my actual life #tw: dentist #dental #luxury bones #surgery #medical

[crystalis]

i talked to my mom today in the car about getting a job and i was really serious about it and we're going to get me an ID made like next week and im going to apply at like Food Fair or something to be a cashier or something i dont really know what i want to do but i have to do something bc i cant hide in fear from this anymore

#i feel determined and i dont feel really scared today. i have to do this and i know i'll feel better when i do it #ive waited too long and my face has paid the price becaue you cant live without teeth you have to get dental implants to stop the bone loss #i cannt allow myself to do this myself i will not i refuse i wont do this to myself im going to get a job and save money

[solarpunkpresentspodcast]

Solarpunk … orthodontics?

My jaw hurts.

It’s hurt for decades; I started clenching it at night when I was asleep when I was a preteen. This coincided with several factors, none of which I think are wholly the source but were probably contributors to the issue: we had just moved cities and I was under a ton of stress moving to a new neighbourhood and starting at a new school for the first time, I had just begun an orthodontics saga of many years which started with wearing headgear to forcibly shove my upper back molars further back into my skull in order to make room for the rest of my upper teeth to move backwards (with the eventual help of braces) to correct an overbite that was starting to affect my bite, and that I was an extremely anxious eldest child. Looking back, it’s clear I was on the spectrum and had a diagnosable anxiety disorder. But discovering that would be much further in the future.

All I knew at the time was that my jaw hurt. I told my dentist and orthodontist and they recommended I sleep on my back, so that I would have less chance of clenching. I did this, and still to this day must choose: do I sleep clenching my jaw, or with my mouth wide open? I have a choice between a) painful muscles or b) terrible breath in the morning + slowly yellowing teeth. Hoorah. I wasn’t given any other advice.

It is at this point that I would have liked any of the professionals involved in the process to have talked to me about the ramifications of seriously and irrevocably altering the shape of my jaw on the surrounding musculature but frankly, I’m not sure they were trained to do that. And by “that” I mean talking to children, communicating professional knowledge to a lay audience, and knowing about the muscles of the face all at the same time.

I would hope that in a future solarpunk society, there would be people with those skillsets employed by health professionals to communicate and emphasize a more holistic look at healthcare - in a way that meets people where they’re at. I was thirteen; I wasn’t ready to hear or understand even the little that dentists would tell me now in my late thirties. I needed someone skilled to discuss this with me. The braces and headgear needed to happen: my bite was getting painful, my overbite was growing so extreme. But even a knowledge of the side effects would have been empowering to me, as a child. I had very little say in any of this process, though I got to pick the colour of the elastics around my braces, yay.

My jaw still hurt.

In the early days of 2012, I woke up one morning and couldn’t chew my food without pain: not even soft foods such as pancakes were safe. I made an emergency appointment with my dentist at the time, who quickly assessed the issue and whipped up a mouthguard for me. I didn’t have insurance at the time (having aged out of my parents’ coverage, and none afforded by my college), and the dentist was sensitive to that, and gave me a discount. Bless him; I’m sure he’s long retired, but I hope that if that little family dentist office off the Danforth in Toronto is still in operation, that it’s seeing some good years.

Wearing a mouthguard every single night to bed wasn’t foreign to me, because I’d worn the retainer I was given after my braces came off religiously for many years until about two years before this. I still wear a retainer to this day: it not only makes it so that I am not clenching quite as hard, but it saves my teeth from the bone-cracking pressure. (I was informed by my current dentist that clenching my teeth is a major contributor to my receding gums, which is a current dental issue I have, yay again.)

My jaw still hurts now, though.

In that future solarpunk world, I’m sure young people wouldn’t wake up with debilitating pain in their jaw and be forced to think above all else about how this is a financial setback. In a future solarpunk world, I would hope that insurance coverage would be a thing of the past, as it would be unnecessary. I don’t know how the details of that would work out. I just know it would save so many young people from worsening the anxiety that was already so bad that it led to jaw pain.

When I moved to a new city and saw a new chiropractor, he would help me to mobilize and relieve the tension somewhat in those muscles at the end of each appointment. It helped, somewhat, especially to mitigate the damage caused by the stress of graduate school - and then a car accident, and then COVID.

I was finally diagnosed with an anxiety disorder several years ago, and though I’m mitigating it to my best abilities, I haven’t stopped clenching my jaw while I sleep, or during the day subconsciously. I’m still searching for some sort of relief other than constantly wearing my nightguard, which is just an automatic thing that I do after brushing my teeth every night. (I don’t think that this sort of wearable tech makes me a cyborg, just a boring responsible person.)

In a solarpunk world, many people are going to need dental surgery. Many people are going to need orthodontic interventions. It’s just a fact. But what can we do now to make sure that the dentists and orthodontists of the future actually work to make their patients’ lives better, not just their teeth?

This is my two cents’ worth. What do you think?

PS: I should mention that though I live in Canada, dental is not covered by our (ailing, politically besieged) social healthcare system.

#healthcare #dentistry #solarpunk healthcare #jaw pain #orthodontics #dentist #dental #bones #anxiety #muscles #teeth #headgear #braces

[gomiworm]

Haida’s family is really interesting to me because they are spotted hyenas. While I understand that the characters being animals is just a cute, stylistic choice, it can’t help but make me wonder. Spotted hyenas are very rigidly female dominated with males always falling in at the bottom of the pecking order.

So, it’s really interesting to me that Haida’s mom is so sweet and timid. Her husband, Jizu, is much more aggressive (and noticeably larger). Female hyenas are larger than the males and also tend to be far more aggressive. Male hyenas are pushed out of their packs when they reach maturity. Haida is very clearly not a part of his nuclear family anymore which lines up. However, his brother, Jiro, is... (Your son looks like a girl!)

Either they are presenting as the opposite gender so that their family dynamic is more palatable for the public OR they are breaking conventional gender roles for their species. One way or another -

Haida’s family is gender non-conforming as fuck!!

#don't get me started on the pseudo penises #spotted hyenas are infinitely fascinating i cant not talk about them #also i think its cute that haida's mom has a lighter coat #hyenas have all sorts of coat patterns and they can fade with time #that's an old little lady right there! #also its cool that jiro's teeth are so straight #this doesn't really mean anything since jizu's are fucked up like haida's #BUT male hyena's tend to have worse teeth since they get left with more bone scraps #in reality jiro's probably just got some dental work done so he'd have nice press photos #aggretsuko #aggressive retsuko #haida

[shima-draws]

Tfw you’ve got a weird dental thing going on and you’re not sure if you need to go see a dentist IMMEDIATELY bc it’s an emergency or if it’s just a little thing that’ll go away on its own and you can wait another two months for your next dentist appointment

#Hmm. HMMMM #Shima speaks #Good news is it doesn’t hurt. Which is a good sign #I think there’s some weird jaw shifting going around in there. #I don’t wanna go too into detail in case it grosses people out lol but #I’ve got a weird bump on my gums and it’s like. Hard. Like there might be bone under there or smth #It doesn’t hurt like I said. It might disappear within the next few days who knows! #Or it could be a tooth trying to poke out down there. Hell if I know WHY tho #Anyway it’s weird and it bugs me and I’m a little concerned but again I’m not in pain so. Not an emergency (yet)? #🤔🤔🤔 #I’ve had so many dental issues in the past like YEAR and I’m just. Bro why. Stop that #I take very good care of my teeth! My mouth just hates me!!

[seraphonfire]

i should probably get that checked

#i don't like explaining my art because like you should form your own opinions and stuff but this one is literally about my dental problems #that i am having right now as well as generally throughout my life #i have weak teeth (and bones) (that's why i can't get lip piercings though i really want to) #i had a really good dentist that i frequented before moving to a different city and it would be very difficult to see him now #and he has all my history like where i had nerves removed and all that and there's a lot and i don't remember all of it #and recently i got a gum infection #and i hoped it would go away on its own (based on nothing) #because i don't take care of myself until i have choice #maybe it wouldn't have gotten so bad if i saw a dentist sooner who knows #so in the end i did see a new dentist and i was like it doesn't hurt that much it's probably not that bad #and she was like no this is actually very bad and it will take a lot of time and money to fix #i was kinda saving up for a new laptop but like that's not time sensitive unlike my teeth. i need those to eat #ive never been afraid of dentists as a kid but now their prices do fill me with dread #traditional art #my art #body horror #ink drawing

[gojoest]

back from the dentist and sadly i will have to go back idk how many times again bc things are bad and ai is very sad 🥹

#— ai rambles #apparently the surgery 2 years ago did not do me any good #so much of the bone is gone i will kms #sorry i rly don’t know any dental or medical terms i wish i could explain but i barely get it in my native language lmao #but yea the horrors are starting 🥹 idk if i can go through this again hahaha #not when even my fave is dead 🥹

[shadyufo]

Etsy shop update is now posted! New Dental Plaques including the TEETH plaque, couple of roe deer skulls, couple of chamois horns, goat skull and more!

ShadyUFO Studios on Etsy!

#vulture culture #teeth #oddities #skulls #bones #taxidermy #dental plaques

[blogalreadydoesntexist]

'fiction doesnt affect reality' what do rabbits eat and what do cats drink and what do mice eat and what do dogs chew on and

#al talks about proshipping again #anti proship #anti proshitter #proshippers are not welcome #cw #tw #tw proship #cw proship #add more 'hey dont feed your animal this just because Popular Character did' #dogs do chew on bones but it as NOT as good for them as cartoons say it is #slightly too hard? dental bills and a hurt pup #too soft? vet visit for possible bone splinters in the gut/throat #yet still! my mother was a vet! and still! fucks are idiots! #give your pup teeny bits of apples (skinned) instead thats what my old blue heeler mix liked when she was little

[morgenlich]

someone: [calls teeth bones]

me: 🤓👆 um actually teeth are made up of different kinds of material than actual bones, which are also organs,

#also your bones would probably decay pretty quickly if they were also exposed regularly to mild acid like your teeth are lol #(not only from acidic foods or drinks like citrus and coffee but also as a byproduct of the bacteria that make up your mouth microbiome #which is why sugar leads to cavities. it’s not so much the sugar itself as it is the bacteria going ham on it and producing a lot of acid #as a result which eats away at the dental tissues)

[glorious-spoon]

i have to get a root canal, apparently, but the closest appointment is at the end of march, so i get to spend a month in pain waiting for the honor of paying $1,000+ for dental work, fml

#i have a health spending account through my job but dental work is not considered an eligible expense #bc for some fucking reason your mouth bones are treated as an entirely separate entity than the rest of your body for insurance purposes #anyway i can afford it but i can also think of a longggg list of things i'd rather spend $1k on