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Hi!
I see you posted a reply to a forum I administer and maintain. I am interested in having some dental work done under anesthesia and am curious about what technique you use.

Before I go any further please let me tell you about myself and some of my concerns. I have a problem with continuously growing teeth. As hard as I try I cannot seem to keep them in shape, I get them to the correct length and after a few months they become too long and I have difficulty eating. The way I have been traditionally managing this issue is by eating foods that have a lot of crunch so they wear the teeth down. Occasionally I have to have sedation so my friend can clip them back down to a more reasonable size, which can be very unnerving for him and, to say the least, stressful for me. Getting the proper sedation is a real challenge most of the time. What we've been doing is this: My friend lets me out of my room, and places me head first in to a bowl of water with clove oil mixed in, after that I really don't remember a thing. It took a little practice for my friend to get the procedure correct and he accidentally killed at least three of my friends while he experimented. At least they didn't suffer.

My diet lately has consisted of raw shrimp with the shell still on, uncooked squid, mussels still attached to the shell (it makes me scrape my teeth as I get to meat detached), clams, live crabs and live snails. Do you have any suggestions on other foods?

Could you please get back to me on the sedation techniques you use and am I even close to proper technique and medications? Can you offer me better?

If you haven't figured things out yet, you posted a reply to a Puffer Fish message board. Do you do dentistry on fish and if so, can I get a percentage of the profit now because I will start making referals!?!

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