The Itsy Bitsy Spider Climbed Into The Man's Mouth
[ranking: 4]
From Redditor /u/BackWithAVengance:
Not a dentist, but my brother is, and he said that this guy came to him. I think his name was Zack, and he was wearing this beat up top hat (drove a cab I think), and there were spiders alllll up in his mouth.
The Black Thing
[ranking: 14]
From Redditor /u/Assimilation:
"Had a patient show up with [a black thing in his mouth]. It didn't strike me as that gross, but my assistant was dry heaving as we removed it...
The black thing... is an organizing thrombus (essentially a blood clot that keeps growing). The patient had a tooth removed a few days prior, and came back to the clinic because this thing had grown from the tooth socket over a period of four-five days. Completely painless and benign, if a bit unsightly."
The Secret Cyst-Dweller
[ranking: 1]
From Redditor /u/ackfjre:
"One day a mom came in with her son... They bring the son back who [had] been complaining about his gums hurting extremely bad. Thought it was an infection or really bad sore, and wanted to get it checked.
Inside his mouth was a... disgusting cyst. One of those nasty pulsing ones that you see in an alien movie when the protagonist gets onto the mothership and finds the incubation room.
Anyway, so after some discussion they decide to do the procedure in a semi normal way: numb the kid up, ahem de-inflate the cyst, then remove it. Easy as can be. Sorta.
[So the kid is numbed and prepped] for an incision. [When the cyst is opened], out crawls a larvae thing from this cyst it had been living in."
Digging For Decay
[ranking: 5]
From Redditor /u/Idontevenlikefish:
"I had a patient whose insides of his mouth was covered in layers of multicolored calculus. Black, green and red. I had to ultrasonic scale each individual tooth for a good few minutes, unearthing layers upon layers of mineralized crap. The stench was also horrendous.
At that point I wondered if I was a dentist or an archeologist."
A Gigantic Booger
[ranking: 3]
From Redditor /u/endo_ag:
"I was in dental school doing a hospital rotation. We were asked to do a dental exam on an unconscious man who had been found unconscious while high on heroin. He was going to recover, but was sedated. He was septic with a bacteria commonly found orally, (Strep veridans, perhaps). On exam we saw some very poor quality... dentistry... but there was also a thick white crust covering his extremely dry mouth and tongue.
We debated what it might be, with one guess being a severe Candida overgrowth. We cultured it and found no fungal growth under the microscope. He was brought to the dental clinic for debridement. When he came to our clinic and water was sprayed trying to clean him up, it became clear what it was. He had sinus drainage into his mouth that had dried and he essentially had a quarter inch thick layer of booger covering his mouth and throat."
An Incredibly Clinical Description
[ranking: 8]
From Redditor /u/C-O-N:
"Dental nurse here. We once pulled a bit of old rotting chicken out from under somebody's implant denture. It smelt like Satan's fart."
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