Nothing earth-shattering here, but this case is another example of how canals can exit roots short of the radiographic apex (RA). For this case, the working lengths were consistently electronically verified. You can even see that the canal appears to stop short of the RA.

My thoughts are that the root actually ends where the canal does and there’s either radiographic artifact or some bony trabeculation that makes it appear longer.

Action: Assign a supervisory staff member (usually the hygiene or treatment co-ordinator or office manager) to dispense minute quantities of prophy paste to hygienists when they are ready to polish.

This ensures that you save money because the hygienists are not wasting prophy paste.

This past weekend saw lots of snow dump on us. I spent a fairly quiet time at home tidying things up in preparation for us going away to St. Lucia on Friday.

Some minor calamities that resulted in physical injury did befall me however:

• As I was making some bird toys out of PVC tubing, the hand saw that I was using jumped off the tubing and landed on my thumb, cutting open the tip.
• Sundance bit me on my right index finger through the skin on Friday.
• Tango bit me on my left index finger through skin on Saturday.
• I steamed some rice in the microwave and got a burn that stung for a few hours on my left hand when I opened the cover and the steam came out.
• I stubbed a toe on the base of a ladder. It is now bruised and swollen and I’m limping.
• I broke a compact fluorescent bulb a couple of feet away from me. It contains mercury vapour.
• With the snowblower, I ran over our delivered newspaper that was buried under snow at the base of the driveway. I tried to use a plastic poker/scoop to get the paper out but had resort to doing it by hand. I forgot I’d left the scoop on the driveway, then ran that over too once I got the snowblower running again. I had to remove one of the auger blades to get the tool out, then I cut my left hand in the process.

So The Girl once again reminded me of why I’m not allowed to use the chainsaw or get up on the roof when she isn’t home. She almost sent me to work with a helmet and mittens today.

Not sure why, but patients seem a little nervous today when I tell them the story…

 I thought I’d try another Koontz book to see if he’s managed to change his style at all.

I found this book fairly typical of his contemporary work: somewhat 2D, almost cartoonish characters. Granted, there’s no Man, Dog, Woman theme like his older books (eg. Watchers–which was one of the first books of his that I read; and really enjoyed).

Although I found the book a little stale in parts, it’s intelligent and ties up nicely.

Thanks to Rudy for the link:

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