I have spoken a bit of these cataract monocles, designed for people with moderately advanced cataract problems, with the purpose of giving them an extra couple of useful years with their original lens, before surgical intervention is required. Eye surgery is certainly not an entirely stable field. New procedures, new lens designs are in the works. Some of them are exceedingly interesting. Being able to delay for a few years, could well give you options not available to you now. Anyone with moderate cataracts who would like to get a few more years of use out of the eyes before surgery might want to get in touch.

And curious ophthalmologists and optometrists, same goes for you. I have another device which would require your participation. Exams, measurements, follow-up visits, etc.

The heat wave and the Central air going down at the same time were sort of taxing for me, not to mention the IRS and a battle in California that I shouldn’t need to be having. The result was a little vessel constriction somewhere around my main pump. So IRS and California are for a short time on the back burner while I get my head right and make sure that I keep the heart well supplied.

The exhaust fan on the central air has bit the bullet. Had another fan near the right size with the wrong pitch (too shallow) and wrong RPM (too high) klughed in place. The two defects cancel each other out. But also the fan is not weatherproof, and we had some heavy rain due, so I took a heavy wading pool I have for the dogs emtied it out and flipped it over on top of the central air housing which is about eight feet square, and the points of the square are bigger than the diameter of the pool, so there is no restriction at all of the exhaust air flow. The pool is a perfect umbrella unless we get some really high winds, in wnich case, I would just shut the system down.

Then my wife came home with some more trouble with a tooth she has been nursing for a while. She has gotten several extra years out of it using some of my little tricks, but nothing is forever. Seemed like the time to take it out.

So I got her all relaxed and non-apprehensive and popped it out. She was just great with it, She had watched me take Felice’s eye out a few years ago when he also had a fractured orbit and jaw, and that worked out pretty well. Felice recovered quite well, had a few more years of catting around, and croaked during the heat wave a week ago after having a good day, happy as can be. Miss him though.

I’ll probably sandpaper the base of that tooth after a while and superglue it back between the two adjacent teeth. Wouldn’t have considered that a possibility, the way my sight has been lately, but the monocle is just working pretty perfectly, except for the blotchines the cataract presents near the middle of the field of vision. The left side of the field, roughly between the seven and twelve o’clock position, is clear as crystal when I have the monocle in. I’m actually getting good use out of my HDTV again. It is so nice when things go well.

As far as the pump goes, I don’t generally like NSAIDS, but in this case, I immediately ate half an aspirin and took an NOS I had lying around. (Nitric oxide synthesizer combining arginine and alpha-ketogluterate.) I also have p;ent of little niacin beads, but in this very warm weather, I’m certainly in no mood for a possible niacin flush.

Don’t you try all this at home. If you have some pain radiating down the left arm, and don’t know the cause, just be on the safe side and go to the ER and let them soak you a grand or two if you don’t have a good feel for what you are doing. It would not be prudent. And definately don;t figure out how to make your own Coumadin out of rat poison. You could screw up the dosing in a variety of ways. You need a very sensitive scale, a good feel for math, and to make sure there is no strychnine complicating the situation. Wouldn’t be prudent. Actually a teensy bit of strychnine probably wouldn’t do much harm, but it could tend to make you a little jittery. And I would be a little uncomfortable with mixing it with warfarin. Could have some upsetting side effects. No sense scaring yourself when you are on the edge of a little heart attack.

Of course, The Emergency Room can be pretty damn dangerous as well…

It does you and your firm no service however, to plaster your weblink on multiple threads here, without benefit of a single original or creative thought that I have been able to discern. If an actual creative thought is not currently available to you or your associates or any of your extended families, perhaps contacting Alan Bellows and contributing some sort of useful widget which would make this blog more forumlike and easy to navigate from one end to the other…. perhaps a navigable index page… What do you think? A thin layer of such relish would certainly make the spam go down more easily.

Or better yet, some way for sight impaired people to come back and repair their typos instead of having them etched in the ether forever. Now I shall close with your brightest and most scintillating remark so far,

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The two upper front teeth, the bottom edge of which have been worn away, leaving what I have described as a lateral groove accross the bottom edge of the tooth. But the wear has been much greater on the back face of the tooth, eroding it somewhat more, higher up than the front face of the tooth. In the absence of opposed grinding teeth, most of my chewing involves these two front teeth, putting them at considerable risk for breakage. If either of those two front teeth were to fracture, it would either have to be capped, (which I have not yet learned to do for myself) or extracted, which would start a cascade of events, culminating in the fairly rapid loss of about sixteen teeth, and the necessity for dentures or the use of an electric blender to liquify my food.

Now, oddly enough, the opposing bottom teeth have not shown the same sort of wear. Nice because it is harder to work on the bottom teeth. I see no particular problem with doing the top edges of the bottom front teeth. With the upper teeth, I can cover the back face of the tooth with a coat of the superglue, or even a lamination of several coats, building some thickness. This lends considerable additional structural protection; further anchoring the superglue filling in the dry and sterilized fissure in the bottom edges of the two teeth. Sterilization is performed by swabbing with ordinary 3% H2O2, followed by a swab 0f 96% lab alcohol, not to be confused with denatured rubbing alcohol, which is a dilute solvent for household use. This is done right before the superglue is applied.

This is easy for the upper teeth. The alcohol stays where you want it, slurps up all surface moisture and quickly evaporates it off. But on the bottom teeth, some of the alchohol gets down to the gum, sets off an automatic sensory alarm, which is directly connected to the two salivary nozzles right below your two front bottom teeth. Now you are dealing with the tooth repair and a flood at the same time. Anyone not conversant with lab alcohol should just skip it and air dry the surfaces that the glue will contact as best you can. This is especially true if you are working on a bottom tooth.

And of course, you use a gel rather than the liquid superglue. The only new thing I did yesterday was to skip the heat blower. This slowed the curing of the glue. When I unthinkingly ate a chicken drumstick a couple of hours after the repair, I lost the back anchoring face of the glue. Might get a week or two out of the rest of the repair though.

Even with the occasional maintenance and repair, I am well satisfied with the results so far. Costs, if my time is not included, have been negligible. A few dollars as opposed to many thousands of dollars for the mainstream dental services that would probably have been employed.

It is prudent for anyone trying this to really pay attention to the details of what they are doing, particularly to avoid inhalation of the fumes, and in using even small amounts of the roughly 96% alcohol, (the percentage varies with the humidity) that I use as a drying agent.. This is not a dilute solvent like rubbing alcohol.

For preparation, I have been using this pure laboratory alcohol and 3% H2O2 on cotton swab sticks. I do very little work on the lower jaw, because it is very difficult, working alone, to keep the work surfaces very dry. The position of the salivary ducts pose more of a problem with the bottom teeth.

But on the upper jaw, I have rebuilt a broken tooth, reinforced lateral grooves in the bottoms of my two top front teeth which have been worn away from heavy use, and most recently, I have done an imitation root canal. This is extremely challenging. But for me, it has delayed or eliminated the necessity of perhaps $6000+ in dental work, if I include the removal of a “permanent” two post bridge from my bottom jaw. I had been informed authoritatively that the bridge would have to be destroyed to get it off. I went home in some considerable pain, got the problem post-tooth under control, and eventually removed the bridge myself, without cutting or grinding it in any way. It is completely intact and ready for use at such time as I figure out a way of rebuilding the post tooth. I do not feel confident that I could replace it with a titanium post, even if my vision was not going south.

But it turns out that I did not need the bridge anywhere near as much as I thought I did. I just overuse my front teeth in chewing now.

I have gone into more detail on other sites. If you want to do this sort of thing yourself and can’t find the other sites, you probably ought not be trying to superglue your dental problems.

As for the company trying to produce the super anti-cavity organism… I have some reservations about it. Maybe when I am seeing a bit better, I’ll go into that a bit.

All I have to say is that ever since I went low-carb, besides weight-loss, better sleep, better energy, no hypoglycemia, etc, I have noticed that my mouth health has improved dramatically. Previously sore areas on my teeth (where the gums had been damaged and receded) which I could barely even touch, I can now tap at with my nail and not feel a thing. Minor pains have vanished and my teeth always feel smooth with no scummy build up.

So, that’s been my experience. Why go all high-tech when sometimes a back to basics approach makes more sense?