Ken, It's drilling out of the canals where the nerves reside, killing all feeling in the tooth. Regards, Bob S.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Ken Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW - > A root canal is not the removal of a root, but the drilling out of the > inside. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f > > ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: NorCal PDML gathering in Sacramento > > >> In a message dated 3/2/2009 9:36:39 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> It's strange, isn't it? I learned that years ago from a >> palaeoanthropology >> book, and for some reason it stuck in my head. >> ============== >> What's interesting about all this is that my dentist is Chinese. Heh. (I >> wasn't totally sure from the wikipedia article who it would apply to, but >> some >> Chinese it seemed). I am not too worried, however, because he was working >> from >> an X-ray, and trying to find the third root based on that. But I will ask >> him next time I go in, if he doesn't have to remove TWO more roots. Or >> maybe he >> already removed three and I just didn't get that. >> >> Thanks for the head up. >> >> Marnie :-) >> >>> >>> Bob W, >>> You are just a fount of information. Wow! >>> Regards, Bob S. >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> In a message dated 3/1/2009 8:39:55 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, >>> >> [email protected] writes: >>> >> 4 roots Marnie, 4! >>> >> >>> >> -------- >>> >> WHAT?!? >>> >> >>> >> Marnie :-( Roots, not bumps, but I will look it up. Maybe >>> >> it varies from >>> >> person to person, tooth to tooth. >>> >> >>> > >>> > it's different for sinodonts and sunadonts. >>> > >>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinodonty_and_Sundadonty > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
