Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
During this month of holiday-themed blog posts, we thought this week we’d compile all of the fun, ridiculous, and completely non-traditional holiday decorations floating around the internet. While we avoided some rather lewd ornamentations out there, these are still unusual without being too conventional. Be warned, those of you who take the holidays very seriously — you may not appreciate the alternative style of some of these folks. Enjoy!
1. Someone’s neighbors were lazy! It’s a good laugh for passerby’s though…
2. These are some creative folks to design a Star Wars nativity set successfully:
3. How you know you work in a hospital:
4. “I came in like a wreckingggg balllll!”
5. These next two guys just couldn’t make up their minds:
6. We can’t decide which is worse! Too many inflatables or too many neon figurines??
7. Umm we still can’t figure out why someone would want a Santa Claus jail in their front yard…
8. Some people like some Christmas cheer in every room of their house!
9. Very appropriate decorations for a frat house…
10. And our favorite non-traditional holiday decorations this year:
And there you have it! How do you folks decorate for the holidays?
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
The same Christmas movies are on television this time every year… A Christmas Story, Elf, It’s A Wonderful Life, Jingle All The Way, and so on. Even though we’ll never tire of these films, we thought we could spice up your viewing experience a bit by offering some interesting and little known tidbits about your favorite holiday classics. (These fun facts are mostly from Mental Floss’ 25 Facts About Famous Christmas Movies.) Enjoy!
What’s your favorite holiday film?
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
It’s the season of giving, which is why Dr. Mike Malone and Associates is running two big holiday promotions! The first of which is a Holiday Whitening Special! We’re giving 35% of the Zoom Whitening treatment which brings down the cost to $395 from the usual $600. To get this offer, visit our Facebook page and look for this post:
The offer is good through January 31st, 2014.
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Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
Would you go so far as to get your eyeball pierced? It’s the latest beauty fad procedure being performed at New York City’s Park Avenue Laser. Dr. Emil Chynn performs the new procedure, entitled ‘Safesight Jewelry.’ Dr. Chynn reported to Fox News that he truly believes it’s “pretty safe” even though the procedure hasn’t been (and may never become) FDA-approved.
Nevertheless, Dr. Chynn has had his share of young patients requesting the $3,000 procedure. That’s right — it will cost you $3K to have a platinum piece of jewelry inserted into your eyeball. What ever happened to facial piercings and tattoos? Apparently these are a thing of the past, too commonplace for today’s female millennials with disposable incomes.
The procedure has origins in Europe and Los Angeles, and has recently shown up in laser eye centers in New York. Dr. Chynn explained the procedure in greater detail to Fox News: “It’s a very thin piece of platinum that’s designed for insertion on the top of the eye, it’s not in the eye so there’s no risk of blindness or anything at all.”
He explained in further detail as he performed ‘Safesight Jewelery” on patient Lucy Luckayanko. The first step is to numb the area of the eye with an injection of lidocaine. Then a speculum is used to keep the eyes open and prevent blinking. Next — get ready for it — a small incision is placed on the eye between the white part of the eye (the sclera) and the clear part of the eye (the conjunctiva) where the jewel will be placed.
Dr. Chynn seems unconcerned with the prospect of “a little bit of local bleeding” and goes on to say any infection will be prevented with antibiotics. Chynn says that he believes Safesight Jewelry is “another way to advance the science of opthamology.” But ironically, the American Academy of Opthamalogy not only doesn’t approve of the procedure — they are warning people of the dangers of it. In fact, in a statement to Fox News the AAO stressed the importance of NOT putting “in the eye any foreign body or material that is not approved by the FDA.”
In the meantime, Lucy Luckayanko is very pleased with the outcome of her procedure. She was looking for a “conversation maker” and her “unique factor” to begin with, and she may have found it. Lucy now has a little heart on her right eye which half of her comrades think is cool, while the other half believe she is crazy for getting a) an incision in her eye and b) a jewel placed in that incision.
What do you guys think? We’re thinking you must be extremely wealthy or bored (or a combination of both) to spend the money and time on such a procedure.
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
Did you know bear teeth alone can indicate an increasing or decreasing bear population? In North Carolina where the black bear population is growing, scientists have been making estimations and handing this data over to the state’s Black Bear Co-operator Programme for years now.
How the heck do scientists predict the status of a species’ growing or declining population based on the appearance of a tooth? I wondered that myself before investigating the matter further. Black bear teeth have age or growth rings, which are indicative of a bear’s age upon death. It can’t be just any tooth either – only the “the two tiny teeth just behind the upper canines” according to an article in The Star.
It isn’t clear why black bears develop these age rings, reported scientist Gary Matson of Montana who performs experiments on the teeth to better analyze the growth rings. The concept behind the science is that each dark ring equals one winter the bear has lived through. Matson is shipped teeth from North Carolina bear hunters and “processes 400 teeth per day.” The experiment involves softening the teeth in acid first, and then making an impression of them in wax. This impression is viewed under a microscope at which point the growth rings are counted.
Okay, so maybe we can determine the age of a bear after counting these rings. But how the heck does that indicate anything about the black bear population in North Carolina? According to the article, the status of the bear population is inferred based on compiling the ages of many bears altogether and then analysing the distribution of the ages. This in turn “represents the health of the population” according to Matson. This information is then sent back to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission where scientists assess whether the bear population needs to be managed or not.
While the black bear population was in rapid decline in the late 19th century, the population has in fact been on the rise in the past decade growing at an average annual rate of 6%. This is partly due to the creation of bear sanctuaries in the 1970s and the enforcement of hunting regulations. Yet population management has recently become a concern as there has been an “increase in damage to agricultural crops by bears.” Also bears have been increasingly turning up in populated areas like suburbs and cities. Unfortunately, hunting has been used as the primary means to help manage bear populations.”
I have to say, it makes me a bit uncomfortable when the article claims the bear’s teeth have “no known function” and can be removed from live bears. Now is that really necessary?
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
It’s a strange phenomenon that saying the name of a dairy product would trigger people to smile. When did the first photographer decide to utter this word in order to produce a smile on the faces of his subjects? The answer to this question is unclear; however we can examine the history of ‘smiling for the camera’ to find out more.
Why do we smile in photographs? It just makes sense somehow, doesn’t it? You almost can’t smile when someone says cheese. According to TodayIFoundOut.com, the phrase “say cheese” first appeared in The Big Spring Herald in 1943. The news snippet quotes former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who shares with the reporter a formula he learned for smiling when your picture is about to be taken:
“It’s simple. Just say “Cheese,” It’s an automatic smile. “I learned that from a politician,” Mr. Davies chuckled. “An astute politician, a very great politician. But, of course, I cannot tell you who he was…”
The politician being referred to is assumed to be Professor Franklin D. Roosevelt, in which case FDR would be the genius being “say cheese,” yet there is no evidence of this. But let’s return to the question of why we smile in photographs to begin with. To be honest, smiling for a photograph is an American 20th-century concept. If you look at a photograph from the Victorian age, you’ll notice stony, serious faces, as it was considered beautiful to have a “small, tightly controlled smile.” In order to achieve this affect, photographers would ask their subjects to say ‘prunes’ instead of ‘cheese.’
Getting a portrait taken was very expensive at the time and limited to the upper class. A photography session took a long time as well, even after the daguerreotype was invented in 1839 and exposure time was sped up to 15 minutes. This still was too lengthy an amount of time to ask subjects to hold a smile without tiring out. It was a big production treated with seriousness, and so the mood often would not lend to smiling. “Smiles during this time were typically captured on children, peasants, and drunks,” according to TodayIFoundOut.com.
But the biggest reason people didn’t smile in the Victorian era was due to — you guessed it — poor oral hygiene! Dental care was still not widely available in the 1800s, even amongst the rich. If someone had tooth pain or a broken tooth, the answer would often be to yank it out. Thus if you were going to have a photograph taken and were missing some teeth, you probably wouldn’t want to smile.
At the turn of the century, Kodak introduced the $1 Brownie camera in 1900. Accessibility to photography spread like wildfire throughout America, and soon anyone and everyone was able to take a photograph. Kodak’s slogan at the time was: “You push the button, we do the rest.” They advertised their cameras “with photographs of smiling faces.” Soonafter, because taking photographs became so commonplace, the advent of casual photography lent to a culture where smiling became more appropriate. (Mentalfloss).
Today, nearly 3,500 photographs are uploaded to Facebook per second. People don’t think twice about whipping out their smartphones to photograph daily aspects of life. Now that’s casual photography.
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
It has to be creepy enough working in a funeral home, but how about one where an employee is extracting the teeth from the dead? That’s exactly what’s been happening in one California funeral home, and thankfully the employee has been caught red-handed.
At Halley-Olsen-Murphy Funeral Home in Lancaster, California, one 39-year-old employee Pete Jacob Lara committed petty thefts over the course of a year that culminated into a total of 125 gold crowns from the jaws of dead people. Lara also stole “a cremation urn box and medallions used to decorate urn boxes worth more than $1,000,” according to the DailyMail.
The stolen items Lara went on to sell at pawn shops and jewelry stores. The LA District Attorney’s office has declared Lara to be charged with “removal or possession of dental gold from human remains, grand theft by embezzlement and possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine,” according to Fox News.
During his arraignment, Lara pleaded not guilty. His trial will commence on November 12th. If Lara is convicted, he faces up to 19 years in prison. His bail is set at a whopping $510,000.
Does it freak you out that an embalmer was picking through the teeth of the deceased? Not to mention it’s morally wrong…
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
We have all seen it — Miley Cyrus’ lovely tongue. She has no shame — she’ll show it anytime of the day. Except, not only are we tired of seeing it — but it doesn’t even look right! In fact it looks downright unhealthy to us.
A genius doesn’t need to point out that Miley’s tongue is clearly looking white these days. The DailyMail highlighted a recent photo of Miley (with her tongue out of course) along with the headline “Is Star’s Slimy Tongue Giving Away Her Health Secrets?” The article headline refers to Cher’s comment regarding the star’s signature tongue pose, in which Cher said to Miley’s tongue as ‘coated.’
It’s normal for a tongue to have a thin coating, but a thick white coating such as Miley’s can indicate a variety of health problems. Experts such as Dr. Uchenna Okoye, director of Oral B Smile, have weighed in on the mystery of Miley’s unsightly tongue. She says: “”A thin coating is normal but a thick white coating could indicate candidiasis or oral thrush, which is a fungus.”
That is just one of many possibilities. According to the Mayo Clinic’s website, ‘white tongue’ is a condition which is “the result of inflammation of the finger-like projections (papillae) on the surface of your tongue. The appearance of a white coating is caused by debris, bacteria and dead cells getting lodged between the inflamed papillae.”
Causes include dry mouth, smoking, not enough water consumption, and most of all drinking alcohol — a huge irritant to the mouth. A patchy white tongue is a bit different, not that any of us have examined Miley’s tongue close enough to know the exact pattern of discoloration she has. However it is possible that a ‘white coating’ on the tongue is associated with other conditions such as drug use, oral thrush (a yeast infection on the tongue), leukoplakia (a sign of precancer) or even syphilis.
Yikes! We aren’t assuming poor Miley is privately suffering from any of these conditions; however we do believe she should to go see her dentist as soon as possible just to be sure. It is possible however that Miley is suffering from stress, as the tongue can indicate this according to Shabir Daya in the DailyMail. She says that stress “particularly on-going stress, can cause deeper cracks in the tongue since stress releases inflammatory hormones.”
Daya also mentions that brushing your teeth three times a day still might not make a difference if you have a dirty tongue. If you don’t brush your tongue as part of your dental cleaning routine, you could be leaving behind food particles, “allowing bacteria and fungi to thrive” in. If you’re tongue’s dirty, your teeth will soon become so. Not to mention a dirty tongue often comes along with bad breath.
In general, a white coated tongue is an indicator of poor oral health. So Miley, please take our advice and either visit your dentist, or purchase a tongue cleaner — you’re a celebrity, for goodness sake!
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
Earlier this year, Amanda Bynes requested a custom grill to be made for her by designer Ben Baller. Baller has created custom jewelery for celebrities in the past. According to Buzzfeed, this is what Amanda’s grill looks like:
The photo was posted from Ben Baller’s instagram account. He stated that he has attempted to deliver the grill to Amanda Bynes for months, but has been unable to reach her. Seeking advice, he subsequently posted the photo. He asked his followers if he should auction the piece off to charity, as its value is placed at $10,000. The piece is made up of rose gold with pink diamonds set within.
As grillz go, it’s not as terrifying as some other’s we’ve seen on celebrities. Here are some more frightening examples:
Surprisingly, Miley’s grill seems to be the tamest! But what are your thoughts? Should Ben Baller auction off Amanda’s grill to charity? We say yes!
Dr. Mike Malone and his team practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. He is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his website for more information.
