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November 20, 2016 11:54 PM   Subscribe

You ever perform dental surgery?
You ever perform dental surgery ON LIONS?
posted by the man of twists and turns (12 comments total) 10 users marked this as a favorite
 
Men talking to animals in their silly talking-to-animals voices might be one of my favorite things in the world.

That these are great big wild animals might make it better, but it is always great.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:26 AM on November 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


Lions are not as difficult as one imagines. Predators, yes, but not the most aggressive of the cats. They are not on hair-triggers. They are, in personalities, amazingly kin to domestic cats, at least, the males. For whatever reason, I avoid grown females, or they avoid me.

You want to see aggression, visit a tiger. Just get lower than the tiger, and it will likely kill you, on instinct. Even one that knows people are expert belly-rubbers.
posted by Goofyy at 2:19 AM on November 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


Technical point: fangs, by definition, are hollow and have a conduit for venom. Lions' teeth are just teeth.
posted by acb at 3:15 AM on November 21, 2016 [5 favorites]


You ever perform dental surgery?
You ever perform dental surgery ON LIONS?


You ever perform dental surgery ON LIONS without sedation?
posted by fairmettle at 4:47 AM on November 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


Yeah, once.

ONCE.
posted by I-baLL at 5:04 AM on November 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


Never on a lion, but on a crocodile, sure.
posted by uncleozzy at 5:07 AM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


They'd have to sedate me before I'd climb into a cage with a lion that has a toothache.
posted by pracowity at 5:13 AM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


> You ever perform dental surgery ON LIONS without sedation?

Heck no, I can't even brush my own teeth when I'm heavily sedated.
posted by ardgedee at 5:14 AM on November 21, 2016 [2 favorites]


Yes. to the first. unfortunately no to the second...
and -- it looks like fun, kinda like going from regular lego bricks to duplo bricks, everything is bigger, easier to see, and with the patient knocked out, rather than awake, trying to swallow, trying to talk, trying to answer a cell phone, trying to leave it's waaaaay less stressful.

The anesthesia is the big thing here, not the dentistry.
posted by OHenryPacey at 8:01 AM on November 21, 2016 [1 favorite]


Incorrect. The big thing is the kitty.
posted by schadenfrau at 8:06 AM on November 21, 2016 [5 favorites]


Random fact: The word "dandelion" derives from the French "dent de lion", i.e. "lion's tooth". So one could say that doing dental surgery on big cats is as easy as picking dandelions...
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:08 AM on November 21, 2016


Well sure, one could say that.
posted by los pantalones del muerte at 8:36 AM on November 21, 2016 [3 favorites]


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