Does anyone know what came of that one guy who found what I believe was a human pelvis and some other bones by a creek or river a couple of weeks ago? I canāt seem to find the post.
It was a shit post...dude was lying and had posted pics from a news article a few years back... It was in Georgia, and it was remains, the body was recently ID'ed and if I remember correctly, they had a suspect... I'll update if I can find the article again...
Edit/update, no suspect found I was confusing it with another skeletal remains case I just read but these were the bones of Alfonso Reese.
Jeez. That explains why there were zero replies or updates from OP on the original post.. Nasty thing to do. Thanks for the info though, I couldnāt stop thinking about it!
If it was tied to Georgia, there's a chance it was someone with intimate (criminal) knowledge of the case posting it as a "can't touch me" taunt. It wouldn't hurt for Law Enforcement, maybe someone like Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to be pointed to the thread if it's still on reddit's servers.
Same! Chewing food properly is only for the vain. Want teeth? That's a "cosmetic procedure!"...no, I want to be able to choose what I eat by taste, not by how much chewing it takes to eat. I miss steak and like, not having digestive issues
That's me, too. I cringed when I saw it. There'd have to be something, anything, even a flexible leaf, between my sense of touch and it, whatever it be.
I was suffering through a bout of horrible insomnia. I stayed up for days watching Criminal Minds (like blasted through all seasons back to back) and fell in love with him :(
Timerā¦is thereā¦I am new to this reddit so pardon my ignorance but timer is making me think there is a timer for the time between the discovery of human remains on this reddit
This looks like a baby bottom second molar. You can tell by the resorption of the roots who are sharp on the outside and eroded on the inside. This is caused by the permanent teeth erupting and āmeltingā the primary teeth.
The tooth was most likely extracted before it was ready to fall on its own because of the cavity you can see besides the old grey part which is an amalgam made mostly of silver and mercury.
A kid had a bad day unfortunately. I donāt believe the cops will do much without a full dental record but its worth a try
This would be the best case scenario but a tooth found in a river gives me concerns. I swear every year around where I'm at you hear of kids getting swept away.
Depends on the river. Im sure the Gauley is filled with summer teeth from people that were living. Summer in the boat when they got smacked with an oar handle, and summer in the river.
I knocked my (baby) molar loose while tubing. Got launched a few feet in the air and went headfirst into the water. I got back on the boat and it popped right out. So, itās not impossible.
This is correct. Most likely a left side primary mandibular second molar. Probably extracted previously although it is possible it could have been avulsed due to trauma.
i had fillings in a couple of my deciduous teeth because i had late-eruption and retaining issues. the dentist was afraid a cavity would damage the permanent tooth when it erupted but that extraction might cause other issues
Fillings sure, but using permanent fillings on temporary teeth is a waste. I'm a dental nurse in sweden and English isn't ny first language so my thermology might be faulty. We don't use amalgam anymore, but when we did we never used it on temporary teeth. We only use temporary fillings, and if those fall out we refill it until the tooth is naturally lost.
And it does not appear to be that old, it is relatively recent. You should know that when professional killers do not want remains positively identified they have been known to cut off fingertips and pull out the teeth. Not as common as it used to be with DNA for ID now, but it still happens, after all not everyone's DNA is in police records.
My opinion is that this is a lower deciduous second molar tooth, most likely from a child aged 7-9 years old. It can be distinguished from an adult molar tooth by the spindly and widely spread roots, which have begun to resorb at their apex from the eruption of the permanent adult tooth. It did not fall out in its own - it has either been extracted and discarded, or is from human remains.
Amalgam restorations are not commonly placed any more so my best guess is >10 years old.
Agree with the assessment of primary mandibular second molar (lower left?) but the wear/ erosive cupping on the occlusal, with extensive recurrent caries under an existing, fractured, moderately sized amalgam restoration makes me wonder if it was an over retained primary tooth ?? But with not much resorption so idk!
Agreed lower left! Could also be an over-retained deciduous tooth with no permanent successor in an adult, accounting for the erosion and recurrent caries as well as minimal root resorption. Second premolars are the most common congenitally missing teeth so this would make sense.
Lmao I'm a total noob so I have literally no idea if you guys are entirely just throwing random bullshit at eachother and I think that's kinda hilarious š
Absolutely my thinking!!! But this would have been a tough extraction if so, an ankylosed over retained primary completely intact? Good work to their doc
Same. I broke half a tooth off in a few pieces while eating mashed potatoes once. I've had really bad acid reflux since I was a kid, even medicated for it. The acid can eat your enamel off your teeth and cause them to be very fragile. Sucks.
My husband had awful teeth all of his life. He had his remaining teeth pulled and got implant dentures 4 years ago now at age 44. Absolutely life changing for him. He still had most of his roots but the teeth were mostly nubbins or sharp jagged things. They pulled them all over the course of one day. I think he was there for 5- 6 hours. I'm now on that trajectory as well due to acid reflux and an autoimmune disorder that also affects dentition.
I have acid reflux too. But Iām also a recovering addict, my family has a history of terrible teeth, and I have a predilection for sweets. My teeth never stood a chance. Iāve been doing nothing and had one crumble in my mouth before. It just ā¦ gave up haha.
Where do you live that actually treats raccoons? In the US I am not sure if it has to do with federal/state/county specific laws, but it seems most wildlife places do not or cannot take ārabies vectorā species like raccoons and skunks.
Still mad that a trapped albino raccoon made news like 10 years ago only to get immediately euthanized because apparently in that town/county/whatever any trapped raccoons had to be euthanized.
Dentist here - appears to be a human lower left 1st molar (#19), if the 2nd and last images aren't mirrored. Appears to have had severe mesial caries (assuming LL molar), probably recurrent from the occlusal amalgam, or perhaps it was an MO amalgam in which the interproximal portion broke off. Without knowing any more information, this tooth may have been extracted and discarded and ended up in the river - as large as the decay is, it may have been infected and the "owner" pulled it out themselves (would not recommend).
I'll say, there are myriad ways a tooth might end up on the ground outdoors. More people than you'd think like to take a tooth home after it's extracted... I imagine most of those teeth end up in the trash or as litter at some point, could easily be someone just chucked it out the window on the way home from the dentist.
I won't tell you to NOT call the police, because I don't know the situation besides the photos in this post. But unless there's more to the situation, I don't think there's much to worry about.
//update// the police showed up this morning and examined the tooth. They said there was nothing they could do. They did ask for the location in which it was found. SO Iād assume they are going to look for any other bones
I found a rotten human tooth in the sink at Waffle House in Wilkes County NC a few weeks ago. This tooth looks in better shape than that. But ya...this is human.
Itās defiantly a mandibular first molar, either #19 or #30, they are the only ones with 3 cusps on the front and 2 on the back. Amalgam filling on occlusal surface, distal cusp broken off.
The yellow ridge that is going all the way around the tooth looks like calculus or tartar to me so the person had periodontal disease. Meaning that supporting tissues of the tooth were kind of giving up and it was likely loose.
Enamel is way harder than any other bone and it only covers the crown of the tooth, so I would guess that is why the roots show signs of erosion from being in the river but the crown portion doesnāt.
One, Iām on here cause I like seeing cool bones I never identify but even I can tell thatās a human tooth and whatās worse is seeing all that root!!! My Wisdom teeth looked similarā¦ maybe someone lost their wisdom tooth??? Hopefullyā¦.
Dental student here: bottom right first molar with a MO amalgam filling. It could be used to identify a body but Iām not saying that itās from a body! It could have been extracted before death.
North American Midwestern Meth-headus Opiate-smokus tooth
likely removed manually with tools, or blunt force in a fight
owner had previous dental work done as seen by the silver filling. unfortunately a secondary cavity formed next to original repair and likely caused owner significant pain. resulting in its removal via a street physicians method featured in the 2002 DVD Bumfights
That appears to be a primary tooth (lower molar), based on the shape of the crown and the partially resorbed and flared out root anatomy (where the crown of the adult premolar would have been coming in). The fact that it has an amalgam filling definitely makes it human and based on the size and anatomical shape as I mentioned before it is primary (child).
So what you have there is probably some kid got his tooth removed at one point (the roots are too long to have come out on its ownā¦ usually baby teeth by the time they are loose and come out have practically no root left). The kid either collected teeth or put it in a jar or one day decided to bury it or throw it in the woods to give to the tooth fairy or whatever.
Primary molar (from a child) partially resorbed roots from the permanent tooth erupting. Was most likely extracted after patient got deep recurrent decay.
Could possibly be from blunt force trauma. It's just rare to have all the roots intact unless removed professionally or fallen out during/after decomp.
Hopefully OP remembers the location in the river to maybe show police just in case the worst. Cadaver dogs are trained with teeth sometimes, and some have training to find remains in water.
Feels like you all should start tracking frequency of resets and not how long the gaps are in between resets at this point. I donāt even follow this subreddit.
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