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Wisdom Teeth Removal

I had my wisdom teeth out today.  Its yet to be seen if it was a wise choice.  Currently it hurts like bitch and it super gross.  But who know what the future would have held.  While reading up on the medicines I was prescribed WIKI had this to say:

Preventive removal of the third molars is a common practice in developed countries despite the lack of scientific data to support this practice. In 2006, the Cochrane Collaboration published a systematic review of randomized controlled trials in order to evaluate the effect of preventative removal of asymptomatic wisdom teeth.^[6] The authors found no evidence to either support or refute this practice. There was reliable evidence showing that preventative removal did not reduce or prevent late incisor crowding. The authors of the review suggested that the number of surgical procedures could be reduced by 60% or more.

Likewise, ClinicalEvidence published a summary,^[7] largely based on the Cochrane review, that concluded prophylactic extraction is “likely to be ineffective or harmful.” The website offered the following details:

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While it is clear that symptomatic impacted wisdom teeth should be surgically removed, it appears that extracting asymptomatic, disease-free wisdom teeth is not advisable due to the risk of damage to the inferior alveolar nerve.Some non-RCT evidence suggests that extraction of the asymptomatic tooth may be beneficial if caries are present in the adjacent second molar, or if periodontal pockets are present distal to the second molar.

Some Funny Skits

The House Bunny

“The House Bunny” comes out August 22.  It looks a like a cute, feel good comedy.  Fairly predictable and definitely a chick flick.  None the less I love Anna Faris and can’t wait for it.

Shelley (Ana Faris) is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu.

The Evil Olsens

Some may recall the Olsen Twins as the actors who played the youngest child on Full House, but PETA wants you to remember something else about them. They wear fur, lots and lots of fur. PETA has an entire site dedicated to the “Trollsen Twins” where you can find the latest campaigns against the young actors. Currently PETA is suggesting to send some of your hair to the Olsen Twins in protest. But that part of the site that I find amazing is the “Dress Up the Trolllsens”. You get to put dead animal clothes all over them!! Trollsen Website

Perfect Laptop Sleeve for Work

Here is the perfect laptop sleeve for the working man. Good for a father’s day present for a dorky dad or perfect for the grad starting his first dilbert job.

From Barry’s Farm

Craziest Hair Fashion EVER

Designed by Nagi Noda, the Hair Hats are made out of synthetic hair, and is crafted to resemble the face of a creature in nature.

Check out the other “hair hats” at This Site!

Wicked Retro Watch

I came across this today when shopping online. My dad (he’s a little old) wants a dual cassette recorder for father’s day and I have been assigned the task of finding it. But what do I find? …the cassette watch.

Rx Drug Abuse

I saw this ad on the nytimes website tonight and figured I would share it.  While the effectiveness of ad campaigns aimed at ending teenage abuse of prescription drugs remains to be seen, I felt the ad was poignant.  It can be hard for parents to imagine their kids doing drugs at all, let alone stealing drugs from them.  But that is exactly what is happening.  These aren’t just your “bad kids” these are often the honor roll student or the star athlete.

In 2003, approximately 15 million Americans reported using a prescription drug for nonmedical reasons at least once during the year.  Also 6.1% of 16 to 17 year olds reported misusing a prescription drug in the prior month.

Hopefully with the increased media coverage of prescription drug abuse parents will become more aware and proactive.

WTF? Kids are smart little bastards.

Do you remember being nine?  I do.  I was a certifiable bad ass within the context of my class room.  We chased the kindergardeners around with whiffle ball bats, cursed when no one was looking, and even had a conspiracy to climb over the fence once at recess.  One year during elementary school, I remembers the whole class plotted together to mess the room up during recess so the teacher would be mad when we came back in.  We spilled a little glitter, maybe messed up some papers, and I remember we put Vick’s Vapor rub on her desk.  I thought we were practically criminals.  She yelled, we apologized.  Apparently kids to day are in another league.

ATLANTA (Reuters) – Nine-year-olds at a school in the U.S. state of Georgia brought a broken steak knife, handcuffs and electrical tape to school in a plot to injure their teacher, authorities said on Tuesday.

Teachers at Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia, uncovered the plot on Friday when a pupil reported that a child in the third grade had brought a weapon into the school.

“The plan was to handcuff the teacher, put tape over her mouth and hit her over the head with the paperweight and possibly cut her,” said Lt. Duane Caswell of Waycross police, adding that some students said the knife was simply there to cut the tape.

“It was a rather elaborate scheme for children of that age,” he said.

The students spent a week planning the attack and planned to carry it out on the day they were caught, Caswell said.

Nine pupils in the grade, most of whom were 9 years old, have been disciplined and some were given long-term suspensions, said Theresa Martin, spokeswoman for the Ware County school district in the southeastern part of the state.  Caswell said police were also planning to charge three of the children in the juvenile court system with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and possession of a weapon on a school property.