Did The Flores Hobbit Have A Root Canal?

Scientific American ^ | 4-18-2008 | Kate Wong

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmark for later reading.

[muawiyah]

Maybe not a species of Earth human at all ~ imagine yourself streaking through the universe and there goes that doggone tooth again so you stop at Earth to get it checked out.

To avoid too much notice you visit a renegade Nazi dentist hiding in Indonesia.

He fixes you right up, pulling your older gold filling in payment.

Sure, all makes sense.

[RedRover]

Paleodentistry. And from the pearly whiteness, it looks like his teeth were capped, too!

[Charles Henrickson]

An Indonesian Tooth.

[Petronski]

Did you say something about unnaturally capped teeth?

[martin_fierro]

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[fieldmarshaldj]

Um... ‘kay...

[eyedigress]

That reminds me.. I need to go to the dentist in a couple of months.

[eyedigress]

Is this the Hyper-Space Bypass stuff being talked about at “that” Restaurant?

[AndyTheBear]

...but did not want to go public until he had a chance to verify them with the original remains. He has yet to see the bones, but decided to air his theory because it has become increasingly apparent that he may never get the opportunity. (A request to do so was denied.)

I'm curious if there was any particular reason given for the refusal.

[bpjam]

awwwwww.......that’s not nice!!!!

[Mycroft Holmes]

That was evil. I spent 10 minutes with Wikipedia finding out how out of it I really am.

[PzLdr]

It’s Gollum That’s no filling. It’s the Ring!

[Liberty2007]

all joking asside, hobbits existed? or is just some dumbass article?

[TigersEye]

Maciej Henneberg, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Adelaide in
Australia contends on the basis of photographs that LB1 had a filling-

My dentist is more scientific than that. Thankfully!

[dawn53]

A CT scan...why not take an x-ray if they want a better look. I worked in a dental office for many years and my first thought upon reading the article was...take an x-ray if you really want to know. Then I notice in the last paragraph it says an x-ray has not been taken...well why not?

[theDentist]

I can’t say for certain if it were a root canal without looking at the bill presented to the customer....

[blam]

"I'm curious if there was any particular reason given for the refusal. "

I'm embarrassed to tell you that these 'professionals' have been fighting like cats & dogs over these bones and their theories. I've lost respect for some accomplished scientists over this.