The totally off-topic thread

[Quickstatus]

Richard Quest is right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlzFRl35HHc

 

[Denali]

Anyone here have an occlusal splint? If so, any ball parks on cost? I have costing from my dentist of around $900 and get back about $400 from health insurance.

They are adamant I am grinding my teeth at night - I used to as I'd wake up doing it but don't do that now however they've shown me the damage to my teeth and I'm getting nerve pain. I'm also biting my tongue in my sleep and that hurts a lot...

Sounds about right, my husband's cost $$$$ and he takes it in for a check up every year or so.

He no longer grinds his teeth but if he doesn't use it when stressed, his wakes up with headaches from clenching his jaw/teeth.

 

[RooFlyer]

Anyone here have an occlusal splint? If so, any ball parks on cost? I have costing from my dentist of around $900 and get back about $400 from health insurance.

They are adamant I am grinding my teeth at night - I used to as I'd wake up doing it but don't do that now however they've shown me the damage to my teeth and I'm getting nerve pain. I'm also biting my tongue in my sleep and that hurts a lot...

How attached are you to your dentist? I was a patient of one for many years and had the senior chap look after me. He started working less and less, so I moved onto another in the same practice. The HE started working less (not that old!!) and often I had to see some-one else if I wasn't flexible in timing.

Then I needed a crown, and the quote shocked me. I rang up the health fund to see what I'd get back - about half. The fund asked did I know that there were dentists who contracted to them to charge only their agreed fee (ie crown would be fully covered). No, tell me more ...

That was it. Such a dentist was only across the road from my former one. Perfectly good, so now I have very little dental out-of-pockets.

 

[get me outta here]

I was told that I am grinding at night and wearing my teeth out. On a trip 2 years ago, after looking up online to see what this grinding meant, I found a lab in the USA that sends you the mold kit which you then follow some fairly simple directions to take a teeth impression, and send back to the lab. They return the finished guard in a week or so. It is BPA and latex free 3 mm EVA material. This had 'thousands' of positive feedback comments. When I showed the finished product to my dentist he was grudgingly impressed.

It it would be quite a deterrent to tongue biting I think because it is a slightly rounded yeilding material around the upper teeth.

If interested PM me and I'll give you the name of the lab, but there seems to be a few out there. I was in the USA when I did this, so I'm not sure how it works from Australia re postage, I suspect it just makes it a little more expensive.

Yes - the splint is just a fancier name for a mouth guard I suspect!

It won't stop the tongue biting but it will mean less damage and pain!

 

[RAM]

How attached are you to your dentist? I was a patient of one for many years and had the senior chap look after me. He started working less and less, so I moved onto another in the same practice. The HE started working less (not that old!!) and often I had to see some-one else if I wasn't flexible in timing.

Then I needed a crown, and the quote shocked me. I rang up the health fund to see what I'd get back - about half. The fund asked did I know that there were dentists who contracted to them to charge only their agreed fee (ie crown would be fully covered). No, tell me more ...

That was it. Such a dentist was only across the road from my former one. Perfectly good, so now I have very little dental out-of-pockets.

...and now for the horror stories...

Had never had a filling, not one. At the insistence of my new boss who was OCD about his teeth (after every cup of coffee off he went with tooth brush in hand) I went for a check-up to his dentist located near where we worked.

Surprise, surprise I had several early stage decay areas that needed a filling before they got worse. Hmmm.

3 fillings later, just as he was about to finish up I saw his hand holding the 'scraper' start going white. You know just like when you are putting a lot of pressure on something and then I felt and heard a 'ping'. I began to suspect he was a TFTTQ dentist.

TFTTQ you ask?

"Trip for two to Queensland" = every visit generates a bill that covers a weekend for two in Queensland (mid 90s airfares & all).

Went back to work and politley confronted OCD boss; "Have you always been careful with your teeth?"

No was his reply, I was a lot like you and had my first filling in my late 30s.

"Out of interest did that coincide with when you started going to X?

Why yes, he explained how seemingly your teeth could be fine but in reality you have a cavity forming on every tooth. They're just at early stages so you do not notice them.

SPRUNG.

Being a shy, retiring, trusting character (as any reader of my posts will know!) I added 2 + 2 and got 4.

So, I didn't brush for a couple of weeks and picked a dentist at random. Made an appointment and went for a 'check-up'.

After a couple of minutes the dentist commented that my teeth were in excellent shape however he was surprised that I had 3 fillings as typically those teeth are not the common teeth for getting a filling. He then warned me that there was one tooth in the early stages of potentially needing a filling.

It was the tooth the Dentist 1 had put so much pressure on and seemed to have scraped/made an indentation in.

Dentist 2 gave me two choices:

1. Try a fluoride treatment that cost a fraction of a filling as given the state of my teeth that may stop any further deterioration on the 'odd tooth out' as he put it.
2. Have a filling.

Door number 1 please!

That was over 20 years ago, still see Dentist #2 every 2nd to 3rd year. Not one filling since leaving dentist #1 - not one. Boss thought I was too suspicious and kept going to Dentist #1 for another 9 months and 3 fillings before he changed dentists.

I investigated what I could do about this charlatan and found that the dental industry is even more 'protected' than doctors. Chance of anything happeing - even less than a positive enhancement by Q on QFF redemptions ten years in a row!


Dentist #2 also (with some prodding) revealed that the reason plaque often builds up at the back of the teeth, lower jaw, centre mouth is that there is a saliva gland located adjacent to the basin-like depression where the tip of the tongue rests. The acid in the saliva reacts with whatever food/energy remnants are left in your mouth as they find their way down to this lowest point and hey presto you get plaque build up there.

Ensuring you brush at this point can stop plaque spreading across your teeth, also a slight swill of water (not juice!) a few minutes after eating also helps clear this area!

Normal transmission now resumes!

 

[Denali]

We're not even listed on the market and have a house viewing today. Still cleaning and haven't even repainted yet.

 

[OZDUCK]

For a bit of fun!

We are cleaning out my late Mother-in-Laws' house and my wife found the salt cellar pictured below. She thought it was an old airline one - it is plastic and 2.4 cm tall - but couldn't recognise the logo. I found the airline fairly quickly - only because I knew of my Mother-in-Laws' history.

So, what airline did this come from? As a clue, this particular airline is long defunct. Actually, knowing the wealth of knowledge on this site, the first person to have a close look will probably know the answer!

Talk about coincidences. Four days after I posted this little quiz, the Travel Magazine in "The West Australian" has a big article about the 50th anniversary of Singapore Airlines flights to Perth - starting with those under the MSA name. Included in the article is a big photo of a MSA 707 with the logo on the tail!

Until I did a quick search about the 50th anniversary I hadn't realised the first flights were on Comet 4's and they connected to Sydney through Perth - range problems I am sure. A direct Sin - Syd flight on a 707 was added later in the year. I did note that the 9V registration was carried over to SQ. Below is a Comet 4 at Kai Tak

 

[JohnK]

Anyone here have an occlusal splint? If so, any ball parks on cost? I have costing from my dentist of around $900 and get back about $400 from health insurance.

They are adamant I am grinding my teeth at night - I used to as I'd wake up doing it but don't do that now however they've shown me the damage to my teeth and I'm getting nerve pain. I'm also biting my tongue in my sleep and that hurts a lot...

Many years ago my dentist at the time told me that I was grinding my teeth at night. The recommendation was that I get a splint/mouth guard of some sort. Forget the actual cost but it was some ridiculous sum and I may not have had health insurance at the time.

I don't feel comfortable with anything like that inside my mouth so the decision was quick and easy.

Don't quite remember the symptoms at the time but I don't really have any issues other than the 3 teeth that have broken in the past couple of years. One had a root canal 20 years and the others had fillings in my teens or early 20's.

 

[Pushka]

Talk about coincidences. Four days after I posted this little quiz, the Travel Magazine in "The West Australian" has a big article about the 50th anniversary of Singapore Airlines flights to Perth - starting with those under the MSA name. Included in the article is a big photo of a MSA 707 with the logo on the tail!

Until I did a quick search about the 50th anniversary I hadn't realised the first flights were on Comet 4's and they connected to Sydney through Perth - range problems I am sure. A direct Sin - Syd flight on a 707 was added later in the year. I did note that the 9V registration was carried over to SQ. Below is a Comet 4 at Kai Tak

Yep, that's weird. Life is weird like that sometimes. You dont see someone for years, for an unknown reason they pop into your mind, next thing you see them. Or you see them twice very quickly.

 

[coriander]

Doing my weekly check of our booking for our September Europe trip, I once again noted that our pre-assigned seats have been changed.

We're flying HKG-HEL on AY and had booked 2A 3A on the A350. Today, I note our seats have been changed to 3D 3H so it's been done in the last week. I've fired off an email to my TA to change them back but this is now the THIRD time AY have moved us from window one-behind-each other to centre side-by-side. Aaargh! That's why I check weekly now.

 

[Denali]

Doing my weekly check of our booking ....

Glad to know Im not the only one.

We had 2 x window seats for our Santiago>Atlanta flight up until about 12hrs before our flight and suddenly we were 2 x middle seats. Seemed like a plane configuration change as J was 1 row less.

Worked out for us in the end as hubby had a fall that day and sprained his wrist so needed help with seatbelt, food, shoes ect but I was very peeved about the change.

 

[penegal]

Lost property from a very impromptu drinks at my house last night:

One set of house and car keys (Suburu)
One pair of black Lacoste shoes


Who on earth leaves shoes behind at a mate's place? Did he not notice the cold concrete footpath when he walked out? Must have had far too many waters.

 

[Denali]

Pretty sure if a reality tv show starts with "The Great British ...", I'll watch it.

Bake Off, Baking Show, Sewing Bee, Pottery Throw Down, Garden Revival... Im watching.

 

[OZDUCK]

Doing my weekly check of our booking for our September Europe trip, I once again noted that our pre-assigned seats have been changed.

We're flying HKG-HEL on AY and had booked 2A 3A on the A350. Today, I note our seats have been changed to 3D 3H so it's been done in the last week. I've fired off an email to my TA to change them back but this is now the THIRD time AY have moved us from window one-behind-each other to centre side-by-side. Aaargh! That's why I check weekly now.

You got me worried as we flying to Dublin on AY in 2 weeks time and I have looked at them for 3 or 4 weeks. Checked our sets and still unchanged since December 2016, 4A & 5A, so we can still ignore each other happily for 12 hours.

 

[Cossie]

On a recent Silkair flight that was nowhere near full, the checkin staff were suprised that we both wanted a window seat and didn't want sit together. I joked(?) that I'd seen enough of the boss for a while and wanted my own space.

 

[Flashback]

On a recent Silkair flight that was nowhere near full, the checkin staff were suprised that we both wanted a window seat and didn't want sit together. I joked(?) that I'd seen enough of the boss for a while and wanted my own space.

I had the same recently on AC and AA. I guess they just don't get it

 

[TheRealTMA]

On a recent Silkair flight that was nowhere near full, the checkin staff were suprised that we both wanted a window seat and didn't want sit together. I joked(?) that I'd seen enough of the boss for a while and wanted my own space.

Yes Emirates do that to us. Specifically booked 1a & 2a from London and they say "Oh, plenty of spare seats. Would you like the middle two?" We both look aghast! "No,no!" We (both) say in unison. "We've been sitting opposite each other for a month and are looking fwd to some quiet time!" (Plus we've used up our conversation topic lists. )

 

[Rugby]

This caught my eye and made me smile. A big call out to all our AFF burgundy brothers and strawberry sisters.

Ginger Pride parade: More than 1,000 redheads turn out to celebrate in Melbourne - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[blackcat20]

On a recent Silkair flight that was nowhere near full, the checkin staff were suprised that we both wanted a window seat and didn't want sit together. I joked(?) that I'd seen enough of the boss for a while and wanted my own space.

I had the same recently on AC and AA. I guess they just don't get it

Same same every time we've done QF A330 suites; we choose 2 and 4 (either A or K) and they keep offering the middle pairs. We both want windows so we decline...

 

[Denali]

On a recent Silkair flight that was nowhere near full, the checkin staff were suprised that we both wanted a window seat and didn't want sit together. I joked(?) that I'd seen enough of the boss for a while and wanted my own space.

Had that on our recent LAX>SYD flght. Planning on 2 x window for all flights to Scotland.

My husband needs alone time from me.