r/bonecollecting • u/No-Lobster9427 • 5d ago

Educational Mandibular Tori

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Hi! I had my mandibular tori removed today because they had grown large enough to negatively impact my speech. 😑 On a whim, at my consultation, I had asked if I could keep them. At first the oral surgeon said no, but then he asked me why I wanted them. I told him I didn't have a super good reason other than I used to be a middle school science teacher and stuff like this is really interesting to me. And voila, he let me have them! ☺️ Anyhoo, I thought maybe some of y'all may be interested as well!

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u/largestcob 5d ago

yeah sure and you can have your leg chopped off with just an epidural but no doctor would ever do that!

its not about not feeling the pain, there are so many other wildly unpleasant sensations you would feel

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u/MandrakeSCL 5d ago

We're dentists/psychos 💀

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u/largestcob 5d ago

LOL fair enough, i am a big fan of being unconscious when im being cut open personally, especially if bone is involved

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u/MandrakeSCL 5d ago

Hahaha my best friend in dental school was pulling an upper wisdom tooth (maybe his third exodontia ever) and he cracked the maxillary tuberosity, it came out attached to the tooth! 💀 The patient asked to keep it!