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Crooked teeth can develop due to jaw space limitations, improper jaw alignment, or habits like thumb sucking. A cosmetic dentist in Edison provides braces—available in metal and ceramic—that gently reposition teeth over time. With regular adjustments, braces gradually align your smile, typically within a year or more, ensuring long-term dental health benefits.

What happens when the teeth are misaligned?

Higher Risk of Tooth Decay

Tooth wear

Speech problems

Esthetic problems

Conclusion:

Properly aligned teeth improve both oral function and appearance, making everyday activities like eating and speaking easier. Many patients in Edison, NJ, have achieved lasting results with braces, followed by retainers to maintain alignment. For expert orthodontic care, call (732)-516-0111 or visit bit.ly/41rTPen to book a consultation with a dentist in Edison, Dr. Menon.

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Dental Implants in Edison are a dependable solution for restoring missing teeth and enhancing your smile. This guide details the process, starting from the consultation to the final crown placement. It highlights critical steps like bone grafting, implant surgery, healing, and aftercare. Achieve a confident smile with skilled dental implant services in Edison.

8 Steps to Getting Dental Implants in Edison

Book Your Initial Consultation with a Dentist in Edison

Develop a Customized Treatment Plan

Bone Grafting for a Strong Foundation

Proceed with the Implant Placement Surgery

Wait for Healing and Osseointegration

Attach the Abutment

Design & Attach Your Custom Dental Crown

Aftercare and Follow-Up

Conclusion:

If you're seeking a reliable dentist in Edison for dental implants, you're in the right place. Enjoy customized treatment and expert care to restore your smile and boost your confidence. Get started today by calling (732)-532-2112 or visiting https://bit.ly/4gmfhGg to schedule your consultation!

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Crafting the Perfect Smile: Your Step-by-Step Veneer Guide

Veneers are undoubtedly an excellent option for those looking to enhance their smile confidently and effectively. They offer a long-lasting solution to various dental imperfections, including stubborn stains that resist your best oral hygiene efforts. With veneers, a radiant and harmonious smile isn’t just a dream—it’s an achievable reality. Ready to take the next step? Contact Smile Bright Dental today to schedule your consultation, and let’s begin the transformation toward the flawless smile you deserve. Your journey to a brighter, more confident you starts here.

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creepy/messed-up history facts

the man in the booth across from lincoln was named major henry rathbone, and after booth fired the shot, rathbone tried to tackle him to the ground, but booth sliced rathbone in the arm with a dagger. after that night, rathbone was never free of guilt. he suffered from stomach ailments to heart palpitations, and on december 23rd 1883, he attacked and killed his wife clara, and attempted to kill himself. he spent the rest of his life in a mental institution.

in 1494, sailors returning from the new world brought with them massive outbreak of syphilis, which spread through an entire french army, and with no antibiotics to counteract it, the disease spread unchecked. the skin on victims' faces would essentially rot away from the grisly ulcers. in some cases, the noses, lips and other body parts of the affected people were essentially gone.

in 1890, thomas edison, using wax cylinder, produced a line of baby dolls. they had wooden bodies, procelain heads, and miniature phonographs in their chests. the phonographs would play back recordings of young women reciting nursery rhymes like "hictory dickory dock," and "now i lay me down to sleep." (here's the audio of them x)

dentures used to be made from the teeth of dead soldiers. they were ivory base plates with real human teeth attached, a lot of these were sold to dentists by scavengers looting corpses from the battle of waterloo. the dentists would boil the them down, cut off the roots, attach them to ivory plates, and sell them.

in 1929, a pair of scientists at princeton university wanted to test and understand how the auditory nerve percieves sound, and their test subject was an alive cat. they cut out part of its brain and attached one end of a telephone wire to its auditory nerve and the other end to a reciever. weirdly enough, many researchers think this helped lead to the development of cochlear implants. but the cat was killed after the scientists wanted to see if it worked on a dead cat.

in 1726, mary toft told doctors that she gave birth to rabbits, and doctors were fully convinced until they found pieces of corn inside the stomach of one of the rabbits, proving that it hadn't developed inside her womb. she instead was manually inserting the rabbits to make the delivery look as realistic as possible.

it was believed that babies under the age of 15 months couldn't feel pain, so doctors would instead use muscle relaxers that had a paralytic effect to stop the baby from moving. this essentially meant they couldn't move or cry but they could still hear, see, and feel everything that was done to them. this was accepted up until 1980s

there was a tiger in india named man-eater of champawat who became dependent on human flesh, which at the turn of the 20th century inflicted a seven-year reign, killing 436 men, women, and children. she was eventually killed in 1907.

there was a book called "how the mail steamer went down in mid atlantic, by a survivor," which tells the story of an unnamed ocean liner that sinks in the atlantic. the protagonist is a sailor named thompson, who grows concerned over the lifeboat shortage, and sure enough the liners collides with a small sailing ship in a fog. as the ship sinks, only 200 of the 700 people on board survive. the second novella "the wreck of the titan: or, futility" by morgan robertson, follows the fictional ocean liner titan, which hits an iceberg in the north atlantic and sinks. like the titanic, the titan was described as the largest ship afloat at the time, both ships had a shortage of lifeboats, and the titan was dubbed "unsinkable." when the accident occurred, roberston simply said he was knowledgabe about maritime operations, saying "i know what i'm writing about, that's all."

some books created in the 18th and 19th century were bound in real human skin which was called anthropodermic bibliopegy. most of these books that were bound with human skin instead of animal skin were mostly based on anatomy or erotica.

during the battle of ramree island, which was fought between january and february 1945, japanese soldiers were cornered by english troops seeking to conquer burmese island of ramree, forcing japanese troops to cross 10 miles of swamp. the japanese soon began to suffer the effects of tropical diseases, but the presence of large numbers of scorpions, tropical mosquitoes and thousands of saltwater crocodiles, the world's largest reptiles, was even worse. In its genre. very aggressive beasts that can reach 8 meters in length and weigh more than a ton. according to some survivors, during the night, they were hunted one by one, in which the crocodiles would ambush them from underneath. and the survivors said the worst part was hearing the screams and the breaking of bones in the dark.

there is a cocodile named gustave (or was if you believe he's dead), a large nile crocodile in burundi who has been rumored to have killed 200-300 people. he's never been captured, but it has been stated that he could be "easily more than 20 feet, and weigh more than 2,000 pounds." he was/is estimated to be over 100 years old, and was/is described as having bullet wounds over his body, and his right shoulder blade was found to be deeply wounded, but they don't know what could have caused it. it's been rumored that he would leave the corpses he killed behind. in 2019, an article revealed he was killed, but there's no photographic evidence which leaves people doubting it's true.

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Lesson 1: Kemet

Ancient Egyptians called their land "Kemet"--or Black Land. The first person to practice medicine was from Kemet, along with the first dentist!  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 1 01:10

Lesson 2: Shotgun homes and front porches

The shotgun home and front porch design originated in West Africa in what is now Nigeria.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 2 01:07

Lesson 3: Walls of Benin

The Walls of Benin were four times longer than the Great Wall of China. So, what happened to them?  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 3 01:10

Lesson 4: University of Sankore

One of the first universities in the world was located in Mali.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 4 01:07

Lesson 5: 1526

The year 1619 is known as the year that Blacks were first enslaved in America. What about the year 1526? 29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 5 01:10

Lesson 6: Freedom by any means

How braided hair, Gospel music, and drums played a role in the liberation of Blacks.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 6 01:06

Lesson 7: Benjamin Banneker

Meet the man who helped design Washington, D.C.,  and that's not all.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 7 01:07

Lesson 8: Queen Nanny of the Maroons

She was like Harriet Tubman, but she freed slaves someplace else.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 8 01:05

Lesson 9: Henry "Box" Brown

Learn more about how Henry Brown got his nickname. It's incredible.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 9 01:10

Lesson 10: Henrietta Bowers

Learn how this undertaker used her background to free Black slaves.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 10 01:06

Lesson 11: John Berry Meachum

Learn more about the "Floating Freedom School" and why Meachum had to put it on a boat.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 11 01:04

Lesson 12: Lewis Latimer

How Louis Latimer made one of Thomas Edison's famous inventions better.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 12 01:00

Lesson 13: Granville T. Woods

How modern wireless technology can be traced back to Granville Woods in the 1800s.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 13 01:06

Lesson 14: Oscar Micheaux

The man who paved the way for today's great Black filmmakers.  29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 14 01:02

Lesson 15: Marie Van Brittan Brown

Those Ring cameras are everywhere. It basically started with Marie Van Brittan Brown's invention in the 1960s. 29 Black History Facts You Probably Didn't Learn at School: Lesson 15 01:02

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I agree with the sentiment here, and share in the love for Nikola Tesla, but some points do need to be clarified.

Tesla arguably did sign bad contracts, or as a non-native English speaker appears to have misinterpreted his employer several times, prior to working for Westinghouse, during his time working for Edison. There's a common story that Tesla was promised a bonus for accomplishing a particular task which comes primarily from Tesla himself (via his autobiography), and has several oddities associated with it (e.g. the amount of the supposed bonus being greater than the cash that Edison's corporation had available).

Following this, he quit, developed his AC system, and that did lead to his employment by Westinghouse. He waived the royalties he had contracted for, likely because having Westinghouse champion his motor and AC system was still the most profitable route for him in the long term once Westinghouse could actually get his polyphase motors into production, and did recieve a $216,000 lump sum payment for his patent six years later (the equivalent of the waived royalties for about 14 years, and about $7.4 million today).

As for the assertions regarding Edison electrocuting an elephant, while that is something that happened, the elephant was scheduled for execution anyway, due to having killed a man. Electrocution had been deemed to be more humane than hanging (which is also part of why it was proposed by an unrelated party [specifically a dentist] for an electric chair design, although Edison did make use of the opportunity to lash out at Westinghouse and AC systems). Inarguably, there were some supporters of DC who did horrible things (Harold Brown being a particularly notable name), and there does appear to have been collusion and contact between Edison and some of these people. That said, I don't currently have access to the primary sources, so I can't speak to the factuality of that or how close this contact was.

(As an aside, AC is indisputably more dangerous than DC. The human body behaves like a capacitor (especially at low voltage) and filters out DC, so it's much less dangerous. THAT SAID: As a general rule of thumb, AC or DC voltages above 50V should be considered dangerous! In the worst case it only takes about 5 mA to kill you. Don't be terrified, but be safe around electricity! Take appropriate precautions, and if you don't know what those are stop what you're doing and do the research.)

For all his brilliance, Tesla was not perfect. I say this as an electrical engineer with a great appreciation for his work with AC and induction motors, and his research into high-frequency AC helped lay the framework for some wireless communications, in addition to his eponymous coil. However, the "free wireless power" device that everyone on Tumblr continually suggests he could have built if not for that dastardly Edison is mathematically and physically impossible. Tesla was wrong (although his research on the topic is once again useful in the short-range wireless power we use for charging small devices today).

Tesla was a brilliant engineer, but also just a man, and I think we should appreciate him for who he was, not an idealized version of him.

Elon Musk bought the company. He has nothing to do with the development. #CosplayEngineer

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6 Common Dental Problems That You Can Fix With a Cosmetic Dentist

Self-belief can take a major hit when you have oral problems. You can be doomed for a lifetime full of frowning if your teeth are crooked, decaying, or discolored. Because of a dentist, even the most severe cases of tooth damage can be easily remedied. With your new, improved smile, you won't have to worry about keeping your teeth hidden when you're socializing and when you are with friends and family. In our previous blog, we have explained the 5 most familiar cosmetic dentistry services in Edison and Kendall Park. Read along to learn six common dental problems that can be fixed by a cosmetic dentist.

6 Dental Problems That Can Be Solved By Cosmetic Dentists in Edison

Dental Inlay

Misaligned Teeth

Teeth Breaking

Gummy Laughing

Unfilled Gaps in The Smile

Crooked Teeth

Conclusion:

To avail the finest dental implants in Edison, visit Smile 'R' Us dental clinic where Dr. Pinali Javeri Menon practices. Call us at (732)-516-0111 to set up an appointment with Dr. Pinali Javeri Menon, the best dental practitioner in Edison. Go to yhe website Smile 'R' Us to gather more knowledge about our services right away.

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Prime Dental Edison provides a wide range of dental services, including preventive care, cosmetic dentistry, restorative treatments, and implants. The clinic emphasizes patient comfort, using the latest technology and a personalized approach to ensure high-quality care. Their team of experienced dentists is dedicated to enhancing oral health and creating beautiful smiles. Prime Dental also offers free consultations for implants and cosmetic procedures.

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Contact: (856) 784-1540

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Isaac Menasha, DDS

Experience exceptional dental care in Edison, NJ, at our cutting-edge practice! At Isaac Menasha, DDS, we specialize in a comprehensive range of services catering to all ages. Our skilled team is dedicated to transforming smiles through top-tier cosmetic dentistry, ensuring you radiate confidence. Families trust us for our gentle approach to family dentistry, fostering a comfortable environment for everyone. Preventive dentistry forms the cornerstone of our practice, emphasizing proactive care to maintain optimal oral health. From routine checkups to advanced procedures, our focus on restorative dentistry ensures lasting solutions for dental concerns. Visit us for unparalleled dental excellence that prioritizes your comfort and well-bei...

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Crooked teeth can develop due to jaw space limitations, improper jaw alignment, or habits like thumb sucking. A cosmetic dentist in Edison provides braces—available in metal and ceramic—that gently reposition teeth over time. With regular adjustments, braces gradually align your smile, typically within a year or more, ensuring long-term dental health benefits.

What happens when the teeth are misaligned?

Higher Risk of Tooth Decay

Tooth wear

Speech problems

Esthetic problems

Conclusion:

Properly aligned teeth improve both oral function and appearance, making everyday activities like eating and speaking easier. Many patients in Edison, NJ, have achieved lasting results with braces, followed by retainers to maintain alignment. For expert orthodontic care, call (732)-516-0111 or visit bit.ly/41rTPen to book a consultation with a dentist in Edison, Dr. Menon.

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Dental Implants in Edison are a dependable solution for restoring missing teeth and enhancing your smile. This guide details the process, starting from the consultation to the final crown placement. It highlights critical steps like bone grafting, implant surgery, healing, and aftercare. Achieve a confident smile with skilled dental implant services in Edison.

8 Steps to Getting Dental Implants in Edison

Book Your Initial Consultation with a Dentist in Edison

Develop a Customized Treatment Plan

Bone Grafting for a Strong Foundation

Proceed with the Implant Placement Surgery

Wait for Healing and Osseointegration

Attach the Abutment

Design & Attach Your Custom Dental Crown

Aftercare and Follow-Up

Conclusion:

If you're seeking a reliable dentist in Edison for dental implants, you're in the right place. Enjoy customized treatment and expert care to restore your smile and boost your confidence. Get started today by calling (732)-532-2112 or visiting https://bit.ly/4gmfhGg to schedule your consultation!

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The Importance of Dental Implants and Pediatric Dentistry in Edison

When it comes to oral health, residents of Edison have access to some of the best dental care, whether it's for adults seeking Dental Implants Edison or parents looking for Pediatric Dentists in Edison for their children. Taking care of Missing Teeth Edison or ensuring proper dental health from a young age is crucial for overall well-being. Fortunately, Dental Cosmetic in Edison offers excellent services to meet these needs, including the latest in dental implant technology and specialized pediatric care.

Dental Implants: A Reliable Solution for Missing Teeth in Edison

If you're dealing with Missing Teeth Edison, dental implants provide a durable and effective solution. Dental implants are permanent replacements for lost teeth, designed to mimic the look and function of natural teeth. This procedure not only improves the appearance of your smile but also maintains jawbone structure and overall oral health. At Dental Cosmetic, you’ll find advanced treatments tailored to your individual needs, offering a reliable fix for missing teeth.

Pediatric Dentists in Edison: Building Healthy Smiles Early On

For parents seeking the best dental care for their children, Pediatric Dentists in Edison at Dental Cosmetic specialize in providing a comfortable, child-friendly environment. Pediatric dentists offer essential treatments, from regular cleanings to more complex procedures, ensuring children develop strong, healthy teeth. By addressing dental issues early and promoting good habits, children can avoid major dental problems later in life.

Why Choosing the Right Dental Care Matters

Both adults and children benefit immensely from proper dental care. For adults dealing with Missing Teeth Edison, dental implants can drastically improve quality of life. For children, regular visits to Pediatric Dentists in Edison lay the foundation for a lifetime of healthy smiles. At Dental Cosmetic, patients receive personalized, top-quality care, making it one of the best choices for dental implants and pediatric dentistry in Edison.In conclusion, whether you’re in need of Dental Implants Edison or seeking a qualified Pediatric Dentist in Edison, Dental Cosmetic is a leading clinic providing comprehensive dental care for both adults and children.

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Can You Get Invisalign if You Have a Missing Tooth?

When teeth need to be realigned, Invisalign dentist Edison can help in a number of ways, including helping to replace missing teeth. You can still receive aligners if you have one or more missing teeth, and you might wish to do so before getting a dental implant. Here is how using aligners can help you get ready for a dental implant.

Replacing Missing Teeth Has a Lot of Advantages

The reasons why so many people who have missing teeth choose to have an Invisalign dentist Edison are clear. It's a typical surgery to replace a missing tooth with a bridge or an implant, and after it's done, your smile is instantly improved. Many people report feeling more certain and at ease with their look after having their smile restored.

Clear Aligners Create Space for New Teeth

However, if your tooth has been missing for some time, it might not be possible to simply have a substitute tooth inserted. Teeth reposition themselves when they erupt, and if there is nothing in the area left by a lost tooth, they will reposition themselves to fill it. The teeth that moved may need to be relocated back to their original and correct places before you can have a replacement tooth implanted in order to make room for the new tooth. The use of invisible aligners to move teeth is intended to be simple and efficient. Although they are best recognised for straightening crooked teeth, they are also excellent for Invisalign with Missing Teeth so that space may be made for a replacement.

Based on your unique smile and the direction your teeth need to travel, aligners are built to order. A series of various aligners is used to gradually shift your teeth into the appropriate positions, and the aligners are made based on an imprint of your teeth to suit your mouth properly. In order to safeguard teeth that are still completely intact, tooth movement can also be halted throughout this procedure. As a consequence, teeth can be moved in a secure and effective manner while also straightening the remaining teeth for an attractive smile and creating space for replacement teeth.

Several Advantages of Aligners Over Braces

Of course, braces can also be used to reposition certain teeth to provide space for a bridge or implant as well as to straighten teeth. However, invisible aligners provide a number of advantages over braces. Aligners that are invisible to the eye are first. Since they are replaced with fresh ones every few weeks, these transparent plastic aligners don't discolour (as teeth move into position). In essence, invisible aligners blend into the background, which is a crucial factor for many individuals who wish to improve their smile without bringing attention to it. Braces, on the other hand, are virtually always obvious. Food easily gets trapped in them, even when they're made to be inconspicuous, leading to an unattractive smile.

Second, while straightening or realigning teeth, invisible aligners can help whiten teeth. This is a crucial factor for many people who desire to enhance their appearance with a replacement tooth. It simply makes sense to produce the most attractive smile possible when placing a new tooth, and this typically entails whitening. Braces cannot straighten teeth while also whitening them, and any whitening procedure will be hampered by the metal of the braces. Any whitening operations must often be postponed until after braces have been removed if they are being used to relocate teeth. The entire therapy procedure is drawn out as a result. And lastly, transparent aligners are simple to clean. With any type of treatment, brushing and flossing will go a long way toward keeping the mouth clean, and the aligners themselves may be washed out with cold water to get rid of any debris that may build up within.

Clear aligners may be cleaned using antibacterial soap, white vinegar, Dentibrite, non-abrasive toothpaste, denture cleanser, or clear mouthwash for an even more thorough cleaning. These procedures aid in preserving the attractiveness of transparent aligners for the duration of use you can also opt for best Invisalign Dentist Near Me. Because braces aren't detachable at home, they can't be cleaned to the same extent. The greatest methods for cleaning braces include brushing, flossing, and using mouthwash, although these methods don't work as well as taking off the aligners. Given these and other benefits, it's understandable why so many individuals favor invisible aligners for tooth realignment.

Get Assistance Creating Your Ideal Smile

The dentists at Dental Cosmetics will ensure that your smile becomes attractive as they are the one of best Invisalign Dentist Near Me, whether you need a tooth replaced or simply want your teeth straightened. Schedule a consultation with Dental Cosmetics now to find out more about clear aligners and how they could help you realign your teeth.

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Exactly how to Developing a Great Invention

The question is currently just how to relocate from the suggestion to an invention that will function. Thomas Edison's renowned quote is that "wizard is 1% inspiration and 99% sweat" which concept likewise looks for inventions. So just how do you tackle using that 99% perspiration? This article has to do with stage one of the process, going through the process to establish what is the best very first technique to supply your remedy. This stage is a five-step procedure.

1) recognizing all aspects of the issue or possibility from an end-user point of view;

2) searching for offered innovations;

3) conceptualizing;

4) select your best option; as well as

5) search for your second best choice.

All inventions begin with motivation concerning something that needs improvement, or just a person coming up what they think individuals would certainly such as. The rollerblades are an instance of someone coming up with a suggestion that individuals will like. Also check out https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/inventhelp for more advice and tips

Structure Your Database

Have you ever before observed that you come up with concepts while you are sleeping, driving, or doing something besides trying to think of suggestions? That is because you have a head full of ideas and also sometimes you synthesize them when you least anticipate to.

1. Understand All Facets from an End User Point of View

My initial invention associated with work was with the creator of the first reclining dental chair. When he thought of the concept, he started by investing whole days in dentist offices viewing the dental expert work. He kept asking the dental professionals, "Why are you doing that?" Wonderful inventions most often come when people understand all aspects of a circumstance, including what individuals do now to fix the problem as well as just how current items function. Recognizing what one of the most crucial elements of the trouble allows you to concentrate on a solution that will certainly have a huge wow element.

2. Doing a Look on Available Technologies

One of the terrific services creator clubs supply is to critique concepts, where innovators share concepts and exactly how they could be done better. In some cases, clubs will certainly do this even for existing products. The advantage of doing this is that creators can obtain direct exposure to a wide array of various strategies and strategies for fixing problems. You ought to join inventors clubs if there is one in your location.

If you don't have a close-by club that fits your demands, you need to go to trade shows where people offer products to companies, merchants, and representatives and just explore exactly how items are made. When you see something interesting, ask someone in the cubicle what procedure they utilize to make the item. Attempt to attend all the exhibitions that entered into your location for a few months so you obtain relatively familiar with all the types of procedures that could be made use of to make your item. check out and get more help with invention

Developing Your Concept

Currently it the time you let go and allow all the possibilities to come out before picking the suggestion that you assume makes the most feeling. One suggestion leaves you susceptible to securing onto it and not taking into consideration any type of various other, as well as perhaps better, alternatives.

3. Conceptualizing

Brainstorming jobs best with a group of people, some with technical knowledge, and some with knowledge of the end-user. They do not require to understand anything regarding your idea, which for thinking is to find up with a much better means to do something. No ideas are bad, and also you don't want the group to choose the suggestion, you only want a listing of 50 various ways that can address the trouble, various strategies. Allow people to comment on what they like or do not such as concerning suggestions as well as have someone track what is being stated. Wild and crazy, practical or impractical, possible, or difficult, no matter. These sessions are simply to assist you to break out of a package of typical reasoning. Do not take place without at least 10, ideally more, ways to resolve the issue.

4. Choose Your Ideal Selection

Now is the moment to believe points over, not promptly, perhaps even taking a month to decide what to do. Write down the ideas that do what the end-user wants, also if you do not assume you can do them. Create them in consecutive order, initially being the one the end-user will certainly like finest. The item suggestions that will make the end-user state wow are the best concepts. Second, compose down the suggestions by what will certainly be the easiest ones to the producer once more providing the easiest one. Ultimately, document the suggestions by what you assume they will certainly cost to make the least expensive approach being first. Obtain a listing of competitive products in the market and also what they cost. Currently, simply allow all these details remain in your head for a while as well as you will certainly begin to lean towards some combination of concepts that you really feel are best. There is no finest way to do this, and also everyone may pick different finest choices - which is why innovators that operate in groups of two or 3 usually do best - yet ultimately, each person will decide on one best selection, which is your starting factor for the invention.

5. Search for Your Second-Best Option

Now, this next step - ruling your ideal selection off the table - which is a concept from von Oech's publication "A Smack on the Side of The Head" may not seem appropriate, I have located it is greatly helpful. It is an unusual, chancier product that is a lot more most likely to obtain individuals' focus. Looking for a 2nd or 3rd finest selection can frequently leave you with the ideal choice. You can also check out InventHelp Glassdoor

One Last Story

One of my most effective new items was a new oral chair, which took over a 50% market share less than 12 months after the intro. We had the item however it was a little lackluster, so we sent a person to an oral workplace that had never sold, developed, or constructed an oral chair. Well we did that with an attribute we called making up traverse and the product went from being lackluster to a sizzling best seller.

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Soup: a “Tesla + Bell + Edison + Mac” Medical Review

“You have a perfectly functional syringe pump with the PCA in the background, and you’re going to give him an injection with a metal needle? Also, if you’re gonna sedate him you might as well use the IV pump too??? Like, you have a whole ‘nother channel?? Most floor nurses would kill for that setup?” <--- From my notes on this ep.*

Awl - X-Ray + Penny - Duct Tape + Jack - CD + Hoagie Foil - Guts + Fuel + Hope - Wilderness + Training + Survival - Father + Bride + Betrayal - Lidar + Rogues + Duty - Nightmares - Seeds + Permafrost + Feather - Friends + Enemies + Border - Mason + Cable + Choices - Bitter Harvest - Kid + Plane + Cable + Truck -

In case you didn’t see it, the story went like this: After being knocked unconscious trying to prevent Codex from stealing an encoded map to a Tesla-era WMD, Mac wakes to find he’s lost certain memories of the event that are crucial to interpreting the weapon’s location. In order to recover the memories and stop Codex from getting there first, Matty calls on a friend at DARPA who studies experimental memory-recovery drugs. Drugged, Mac enters a dream state to track down the memories, where he encounters his mother, a man he recently chose to kill to save everyone in LA, his high-school bully, and a darker version of himself who thinks Codex’s directive to kill an eighth of the population to save the world might not be too far off the mark.

So there’s a lot to talk about here medically. For this post, I’ll go into the concussion and its aftermath, the drug and it’s administration, and the medical technology that the Phoenix infirmary seems to have at its disposal.

The Concussion/Amnesia:

Mac is knocked out by a blow to the head. He wakes up “a few hours” later in the Phoenix infirmary. I’ve talked about concussions before (see here, here, and here), so I’m not going to go into too much detail about them in this post, but essentially if someone’s out for that long, they’re in trouble.

It’s reasonably common to lose consciousness in a concussion, but it’s usually only for seconds to minutes, and if it occurs at all, that person needs prompt medical evaluation in an emergency room. Even if there ends up being no major complications, like bleeding in the brain or an increase in pressure in the skull, the recovery time for concussions with a loss of consciousness can be in the weeks or months range. Someone who’s out for “hours” is looking at a stay in a neuro ICU and probably severe and possibly permanent brain damage. Like, it’s a season-long arc at least.

Since we’re not seeing that level of medical need, I think it would probably be safe to assume that Mac wasn’t actually out for “hours” as stated. He could have been briefly unconscious, as shown in the house attack scene, but then had trouble forming memories after that, which caused him to not remember the ride back to Phoenix very well, if at all. These are still concerning enough symptoms that I would have taken him to an emergency department instead of to the infirmary, but at least with that scenario there’s a possibility what happened to him isn’t actively life threatening outside of a neuro ICU.

Unlike the extended period of unconsciousness, the portrayal of amnesia isn’t far off the mark for once. The amnesia that Mac suffers is actually pretty reasonable- trouble remembering the incident and the events just before it is common in head injuries, as is having trouble forming new memories after. Not only is accurate amnesia something that I didn’t expect out of Rob Pearlstein (writer of the infamous Guts + Fuel + Hope), but it’s something that fiction as a whole (including, I’ll admit, 1985 MacGyver**) tends to struggle with. So kudos for that specific part of this episode, Pearlstein.

The Drug:

Even if we assume Mac wasn’t unconscious that whole time, the brief unconsciousness and memory problems indicate that he still had a pretty significant concussion that needed medical care and monitoring. I’m guessing that as advanced as the Phoenix Infirmary is, it doesn’t have the capacity to do neurosurgery or intracranial pressure monitoring. That means the Phoenix medical team’s priority in this situation would essentially be to catch any major, life-threatening complication as early as possible, and if one happened, get Mac to a hospital quickly enough to save him.

The best and lowest-tech tool they have to this end is repeated mental status exams. Mental status exams have the patient answer a series of questions like “what’s your name?” “what day is it?” “where are you right now?” “what happened to you/why am I asking you these questions?”  followed up with a series of mental tasks like counting backwards from 100 by 7s or making a logical decision based on a given scenario. If Mac’s answers significantly change, from one assessment to the next, that could mean he’s in trouble. 

Because these assessments rely so heavily on Mac’s ability to answer questions and perform tasks accurately, and they’re really the only thing that’s going to catch a serious problem early enough to save Mac’s life, the last thing you’d want to do is give him a drug cocktail that would alter his perception of where he is and what’s going on around him. I’ll just… leave that there.

But let’s assume that for some reason they have a non-CT way of assessing whether Mac’s about to die from a brain bleed while in a drug-induced dream state (they do appear to have limited EEG capability- can anyone tell me if this would still be helpful in the context of the drugs?). I’m not going to talk too much about the drug cocktail itself, since it was stated as fictional (so, essentially, anything they say it does it can probably do), but since they do reference it as containing DMT, I invite you to check out the erowid experience vault for DMT for stories of other people’s experiences with it.  

I will, however, talk a little about the administration of the drug. In the episode, a syringe with a needle is used to deliver the medication. Though not explicitly shown, I assume Dr. Cheryl inserted the metal needle into one of Mac’s arm veins and injected the drug.

Something that fiction generally doesn’t understand is that inserting a metal needle into a vein in order to administer medication doesn’t happen in a medical setting. Ever. The ONLY way to administer a medication IV in a medical setting is through an IV cannula- a short, flexible plastic tube inserted into a vein, often just colloquially called an “IV”:

If Mac had one of these ^^^, the syringe could attach to one of the blue and white pieces and the medication could be injected without worrying that the needle could slip out of the vein (many IV medications must be injected slowly over several minutes, and that’s a long time to hold a needle still).

Before Dr. Cheryl gives him the drug, she takes his vitals and asks him some questions, namely whether he has ever had “a psychotic break”, then, without explaining further, asks if he thinks he will become violent.

Now, it does make sense to ask someone about their psych history when administering a drug known to have psych side effects, because those can be a lot worse or more likely for people with certain psych histories. Think about SSRIs and SNRIs- they’re good antidepressants, but when given to someone with bipolar disorder, they can greatly increase the risk of a manic episode, and that possibility has to be evaluated before the drug is prescribed.

The conversation should have started with Dr. Cheryl asking everyone else to leave the room. Asking if someone has ever experienced psychosis in front of their coworkers, is not only a serious breach of patient privacy, but could also be incredibly dangerous. If Mac had experienced psychosis, but didn’t want his coworkers to know, he’d either have to lie and risk side effects without being able to prepare, or feel pressured to release that medical information and possibly risk his job or reputation***.

Then she’d ask something to the effect of “have you ever been diagnosed with a mental illness, been hospitalized for a mental health reason, or do you take any medications for a mental health problem?” And if the answer to that question was anything that would make the drug particularly dangerous to him, she’d probably tell him the risks and her assessment that it was a bad idea to proceed.

If there was no other option for some reason (I’d argue not the case in this situation), she’d tell him what the risks were, and only then would she possibly have to ask if he knew he might become aggressive, at which point they’d come up with how he’d like her to handle that possibility.

I know it’s not quite as snappy, but I would have really liked to see it.

Plus, unless it’s been asked off screen, Dr. Cheryl hasn’t asked him if he has any other health problems, if he takes any medications, or if he has any allergies, all of which could significantly impact how safe this drug could be for Mac.

Phoenix Infirmary Medical Tech

Now let’s look at some of the bits and pieces in the background of the episode. Particularly, I wanna talk about that chair, the IV pump, and the monitor.

So, chair first- it’s a dentist’s chair. It’s good for dental things and maybe some minor procedures (we have a slightly different chair in a doctor’s office I work at- we use it for things like implanting birth control, removing warts and moles, and providing wound care), but it’s not great for anything else. It’s especially not great if you have to sit there longer than a half hour. Considering we know from previous episodes that they have a full-on hospital bed somewhere at their disposal and possibly a couple of carts (narrower beds you see in the emergency department), I gotta say it makes literally no sense to put the guy who’s unconscious from a head injury in the procedure chair.

Next, the IV pump

We talked above about administering medications “IV push”- a medication “pushed” through an IV by a syringe, one dose at a time. Another way to give IV medication or fluids is via an IV drip or “piggyback”- the medication is diluted in a bag of saline or other IV fluid, and set to continuously run into a person’s IV. These are nice for doses of IV medication that have a lot of volume (like IV antibiotics) medication that wears off quickly and may need constant adjustment (like some kinds of sedation or some types of pain medication or medications that counteract shock), or just straight up IV fluids.

IV pumps control how fast the medication or fluid goes from the bag into the person. You can vaguely control this without a pump using gravity, a drip chamber, and a roller clamp, but if you need to know precisely how many milliliters of medication/fluid per hour is getting into a person, and you didn’t start your nursing career in the 1970s, you need a pump.

The one pictured above specifically consists of a central computer box (colloquially called a “brain”) where the pump rate can be programmed, flanked by interchangeable modules that each do a slightly different thing. The modules on the pump in the episode include an infusion pump, which essentially just pumps fluid from a bag hanging above it into a person, and a PCA pump. A PCA pump holds a syringe of medication (usually pain medication) and delivers a dose of it when the patient presses a button.

Honestly I think the whole things is just chillin’ in the background making the room look medical-y, but they really could have used it to continuously administer the drug or the sedation if they’d really wanted to incorporate it.

Side note, the modules are actually kind of heavy, so you have to balance them a little or the whole thing kinda tilts (see the screenshot from the episode). Also, for some reason if you stick an infusion module on the same side as a PCA module, the brain won’t recognize it half the time. Not sure if it’s a feature or a bug. Below is how someone who has ever once used one of these things would have set it up:

The other thing they have in the episode, and the last thing I’ll talk about before I let you get back to your life (I’m sure your cat misses you by now, mine sure does), is the monitor. 

I read several user manuals for this (real) monitor system in preparation for this post. I’ve concluded that it’s way, way above my med-surg pay grade, and usually used in operating rooms by anesthesiologists to monitor sedation level (so at least in theory they could be using it correctly? I’m as shocked as you are, really). I don’t even know what half those numbers mean (beyond the SpO2, heart rate, and respiratory rate), more than just being able to say they (surprisingly) do actually reflect real monitoring options on this thing. This leads me to believe this may be some kind of weird product placement thing? As if the gratuitous use of the Toyota backup cameras weren’t oddly forced enough.

Now, beyond the fact that this is a wildly high-tech, completely overkill machine for what is happening in the episode, the thing I would like to impress upon you is that regardless of the high tech-ness, every line on a monitor requires at least some attachment to the patient. Something measuring an EKG requires at least 3 leads on the patient. Something measuring oxygen saturation and pulse requires a clip on an ear or finger. Something measuring blood pressure requires a blood pressure cuff. Something measuring temperature usually means a probe somewhere the sun don’t shine. Mac has two little leads on his forehead. That is actually hilarious. He’d be covered in wires. He would have so much adhesive stuck to him.

In case you’re wondering, the heart/lungs/brain/person outline picture on the monitor just tells you how each part of the body is doing- like, the brain will turn yellow and then red if something starts going weird with the brain-related monitoring, same with the heart and lungs. It took an insane amount of searching to figure that out. I’ve been writing this post for 4 days now.

 *I had a much longer and rant-ier intro to this but I feel like I’ve complained enough on main about how the reboot dumbed down and politically neutralized an extremely opinionated and hardline character. I do really like this show, and the storylines are really interesting, but I need you all to understand how science-based and politically charged the original one was, especially in later seasons. You had such a platform for good here, CBS, and I’m hoping against hope the generic-action-show it’s become was some kind of weird, collective misunderstanding and not a censor problem. My main problem, having finished writing this post, is that he looks really weirdly good for someone who was unconscious with a head injury and then subjected to what was another few hours unconscious and hallucinating. Like, his shirt is still tucked in. Great update to the theme song, though.

**Twice. They played the bourne-style-amnesia storyline twice.

***At this point I can only recommend you watch the 1985 MacGyver Season 7 episode “Obsessed”- it’s a ridiculous-criminal-plot episode but the undertones are all anti-ableist (both criticizing the Phoenix Foundation board of directors’ ableism in assuming Pete is no longer fit to do his (desk) job after he loses his sight, and the pressure Pete himself is under to let MacGyver go because of mental health symptoms).