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E-cigarette explodes in teen’s mouth, blasts hole in his jaw
N Y Post ^ | 06/201/2019 | Hannah Sparks

Posted on 06/20/2019 4:36:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Katie W. Russell, the pediatric surgeon who treated 17-year-old Austin, compared his injuries to those seen in “high-speed motor vehicle crashes.” Her colleague, pediatric ear, nose and throat surgeon Jonathan Skirko, says it looked “kind of like a close-range gunshot wound.”

Burton and her maimed son first headed to the local hospital in their hometown of Ely, Nevada, but were turned away for lack of resources. Doctors said they’d have to drive 200 miles to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.

They filled the teen’s mouth with gauze and gave him a “vomit bag,” says Burton, noting he didn’t receive any pain medication, then set off on a five-hour journey — almost hitting a wild horse in the process — and finally arrived around 1 a.m.

“He had a very swollen lower jaw and lip, a small burn on his lip and a huge cut in his mouth,” says Russell. “A 2-centimeter [¾-inch] piece of his jaw was just blown to pieces.”

Austin’s injuries required two surgeries to repair, the doctors say, which included adding a titanium plate to stabilize his jawbone and stitching the flesh wounds. The hole in the young man’s chin could have been caused by e-cig shrapnel or a wayward tooth.

E-cigarettes contain lithium-ion batteries — the likely culprit in some 2,035 vaporizer explosions occurring between 2015 and 2017, according to a British Medical Journal report. The U.S. Fire Administration says these batteries are “not a safe source of energy for these devices.”


A reconstructed computer tomography image of the e-cig injuries
Primary Children's Hospital/The New England Journal of Medicine

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ecigarette; ecigs; explodes; mouth; teen
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To: RandallFlagg
It’s likely that the (closer to the mouth) coils used were titanium. It can be done but is not recommended. Titanium can cause a class delta fire when heated too much or too quickly.

Possible, but still not going to cause an explosion with enough force to break the mandible AND they are still a couple of inches away from the lips in most e-cigs and usually enclosed in a brass tube.

41 posted on 06/20/2019 6:26:25 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: rawcatslyentist

I get mine from elementvape.
Currently using the Mag (Pictured above) with the Hellvape/MikeVape Rebirth RTA with dual 24 gauge Kanthal running .28 ohm at 30 watts.
Smoooooooth!


42 posted on 06/20/2019 6:27:03 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Swordmaker

Thank you for that explanation. Makes sense.


43 posted on 06/20/2019 6:29:24 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: Swordmaker

If he was dry-hitting on a titanium RDA (Rebuildable Drip Atomizer), the titanium would be less than an inch from his mouth. Those RDAs are really small.


44 posted on 06/20/2019 6:29:56 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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Not titanium, but similar:
https://youtu.be/nKljEE9SCmA


45 posted on 06/20/2019 6:34:15 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: Swordmaker

There have been several reports of these exploding like this over the years. I have seen them. Injuries to hands, mouths and face. This is not a one off incident.


46 posted on 06/20/2019 6:42:37 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Swordmaker

“They expanded, swelled, heated up, and burst into flame”...

Like explosives do?


47 posted on 06/20/2019 6:43:07 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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Titanium use for the heating coils in ecigs:
https://youtu.be/O-arksEDiBc?t=253


48 posted on 06/20/2019 6:46:53 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: RandallFlagg
They’re discontinuing house liquids.

You can make your own.

49 posted on 06/20/2019 6:49:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: BenLurkin

Cue the 007 skunk works, exploding battery cigarettes from Gold Finger!


50 posted on 06/20/2019 6:50:03 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Swordmaker

I used to make my own. But, I suck at it.


51 posted on 06/20/2019 6:50:52 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: 1FreeAmerican
Like explosives do?

No, explosives explode. Lithium Ion batteries expand and ignite at worst. There’s a difference.

52 posted on 06/20/2019 6:53:40 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: RandallFlagg
If he was dry-hitting on a titanium RDA (Rebuildable Drip Atomizer), the titanium would be less than an inch from his mouth. Those RDAs are really small.

As i said, possible, but still outside his mouth and nowhere near the amount of force required to break a mandible. Remember, no real damage to lips except a minor burn, but huge damage inside the mouth to the mandible but no damage to the upper incisors. Doesn’t make sense.

53 posted on 06/20/2019 6:59:08 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: RandallFlagg
Not titanium, but similar:

Poof, not boom. . . Nowhere near enough power to break a mandible. Not even enough to break a piece of balsa wood.

54 posted on 06/20/2019 7:04:59 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

It actually makes perfect sense.
An RDA is basically a metal cup with small ventilation intake holes on the sides.
On the top is a big, gaping hole where the mouthpiece is.
If he took too many dry hits (The wicking material was too dry to vaporize anything) and kept hitting the activation button, and the titanium ignited, the force would go directly into his mouth. Like a shotgun shell.
Add the fact that his lips were wrapped around the drip tip at the time of it happening.
Therefore, his lips would be outside of the combustion area while his teeth would get the brunt of it.


55 posted on 06/20/2019 7:06:19 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: RandallFlagg
Not titanium, but similar:

And he pulled the tank off. . . Not a good idea.

56 posted on 06/20/2019 7:06:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Freedom4US

For real.

I smoking Marlboros when I was seventeen and never had a pack blow up.

Even the high flame bic lighters never did either.


57 posted on 06/20/2019 7:36:53 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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To: RandallFlagg
Titanium use for the heating coils in ecigs:

ROTFLMAO!

Class D fire extinguisher? He really said you’d need to have a class D fire extinguisher to put out your e-cig heating coil fire???? Really? Hilarious

We machine Titanium in our office for dental use, it’s a common medical metal, and we’re not required to have Class D fire extinguishers. You only need that if you have a major construct, say a fighter jet, made of Titanium that might catch fire! God save us from people like this video blogger with a little knowledge.

Your heating coil in your e-cig, if it were to ignite, would quickly flash and be gone, and all Titanium would be converted almost instantly to Titanium Oxide. . . there is so little there’s the danger is minuscule. It would self extinguish. It’s contained within a brass tube, that’s why you cant see it. E-juice base is mostly non-flammable. . . But you might get some alcohol residue and flavorings to ignite.

However, Titanium’s flash point (ignition temperature in air) is 610º C or 1130º F, and it’s highly unlikely any electronically regulated e-cig can reach that temperature. Perhaps if you shorted the battery out across the coil. . .

Almost all other heating elements are worse with lower flash points. . .

58 posted on 06/20/2019 7:37:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: Swordmaker

Kid could have been chewing on the wrong end.

Hey, I chewed on pencils(when I was in the third grade)


59 posted on 06/20/2019 7:38:55 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Welcome to Thunderdome... America 2019)
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To: RandallFlagg

And both should have adequate venting in case of a battery flare out. A must have on a mech mod.

Switched 8 years ago, and never understood the attraction of sub-ohm pipe bombs.


60 posted on 06/20/2019 7:39:29 PM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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