How have you lost, or found a crown you were working on.

[JMN]

Reminds me of a story my Step-mother told, she worked psyche ward as a cardiac specialist nurse:

Apparently there is a mental disorder that compells the sufferer to injest ANY shiny object, they didn't get his wedding ring before unrestaining him one time he "lost it" and had to get inpatient treatment. The wedding ring made 5 trips through him before they could retrieve it and get it to his wife.

Ahh, the joys of medicine.

 

[Car 54]

Not quite the same, but we have 1/2 a separating disk stuck in the ceiling tile. Great lesson learner for pushing eye protection to newbies.

I had totally forget that had happened to me too, until you mentioned this. That little visual lesson did also get my attention.

 

[Betalab]

I'm just a denture dude but have searched for more than my share of attachment parts, teeth that come out of the flask, or a tooth that I was adjusting during a set-up and that was yesterday. If I do not find it in a few minutes I vac the lab with the Dyson & an empty bin. Part of the reason I keep the place clean and drawers closed, especially lower centrals when the hit the carpet they can go any direction.
I worked at a lab in the 70's and the porclean girl dropped an inlay, we were late at night shift, searched the lab an hour latter found it in her bra.

woot wooo..... I'm not going to ask how u did that

 

[araucaria]

Not quite the same, but we have 1/2 a separaring disk stuck in the celing tile. Great lesson learner for pushing eye protection to newbies.

I had a similar experience with a disc from a high-speed grinder that got stuck in the woodwork of a wall about 9 ft up. As you said, it's a great pointer for safety glasses.

 

[amadent]

was just polishing a Inlay- took my mind off of it for a split second-
Gone-
shot it righ over my shoulder- off the ceiling, off the bench adjacent to me
came to rest about 3 inches for the A/C vent on the floor-
it is now-
sitting safley in box waiting to be shipped out

 

[Car 54]

I had a similar experience with a disc from a high-speed grinder that got stuck in the woodwork of a wall about 9 ft up. As you said, it's a great pointer for safety glasses.

Kind of like the speed and force of a tornado, putting 2x4s through walls, just in a lab scale way.

 

[Mr White]

There's a gap about an inch and a half next to by mates bench where the central heating pipes go. There's at least two crowns down there! We need to block it up really. It's a bench out job if you want the crowns back!

 

[geo morgan]

delivery man driving to deliver a denture window open music on. Went around the roundabout and the denture went flying out of the window off the dashboard and onto the road. Luckilyt drove arouung again and managed to get it.

Bloody delivery drivers..... years ago I was on lunch and walking up to the shop I noticrd what looked like the remains of a blue denar case, artic and plaster on the road destroyed by hours of traffic..... the driver put it on his roof and got into the car..... by the time I had returned to the lab he had phoned to say the job had vanished into thin air

 

[geo morgan]

We had repair on a denture come in years ago when I was a young apprentice. The central had come off and the patient had swallowed it. 2 days later the client called to tell the lab that the patient had retrieved the missing tooth and wondered if we could use it!!!!! True storey , I still chuckle to myself whenever I think about it

I did an attachment case years ago with a very nice dentist. He spent the first half hour telling the patient how expensive the pars were. On fitting a part flicked down a patients throte. Damn he said we need to get you into hospital for an x ray but in the meantime we need you to examine your stools. Its so so important we find that part he said........ horrified at how tight he was being I said dont worry I will just order another!!!!!......... I looked and smiled patronisingly......im worryed about it being in the lungs not the cost...... I wanted to shrivvel up

 

[Car 54]

Bloody delivery drivers..... years ago I was on lunch and walking up to the shop I noticrd what looked like the remains of a blue denar case, artic and plaster on the road destroyed by hours of traffic..... the driver put it on his roof and got into the car..... by the time I had returned to the lab he had phoned to say the job had vanished into thin air

I just hate when that happens, when a whole Denar case, art. and all just, "vanishes" Did the driver say, "That's my story and I'm stickin' to it"

 

[martintay]

Bloody delivery drivers..... years ago I was on lunch and walking up to the shop I noticrd what looked like the remains of a blue denar case, artic and plaster on the road destroyed by hours of traffic..... the driver put it on his roof and got into the car..... by the time I had returned to the lab he had phoned to say the job had vanished into thin air

Hello mate , how are you ?

 

[Smilestyler]

Not a crown, but a denture tooth. After grinding it down to fit a framework it was so small that it came out of my fingers. I looked for hours and my wife found it at the end of the day sitting about five feet up on a horizontal blind. Now it's the first place I look, but its never had it happen since.

 

[Mrs.galfriday]

The usual spots. Pocket, bra, shoelaces... One oddball place was up under the casing of an oven. I don't know how D thought to look there, but she took off the outside shell and found it on a ledge inside. I guess it bounced off the bench up into the base and onto a ledge inside. A boss once said to my posterior, as I was searching for a lost coping on the floor, "Oh, look. It's a Dental Technician".

 

[Andrew@KillianDental]

While working on a PFZ It caught the wheel i was using and flung up but didn't hear it hit the ground (headphones on) So now having no idea what direction it went, if it was even on the ground at all i searched. Moved chairs, swept the floor and nothing... This was a sintered unit that I didn't want to spend another day having it milled/sintered.

So after looking for a good 20mins I set the case aside and started working on another case. It got cold because my co worker opened the window so i put my hood on from my jacket... and what falls out from the hood? yep the PFZ XD

This next one is not my story but my old co worker from another lab. He was working on a soft tissue and was trimming it or something and it flung out of his hand. He searched for a good while before checking the most unlikely place ever.... the top of the door trim to the room... How on earth it landed there we will never know but i bet nobody can replicate that same event ever in a million years.

 

[grabo]

I have found that if you looking for a crown its usually rolled itself up in the dirtiest little patch you have in you lab !!

 

[JohnWilson]

I always smile reading these posts as we ALL have had our experiences looking for a crown. It generally happens to a crown that is

1)fragile
2)a remake
3)are due to go out like RIGHT NOW

To expand on this thread and add other common things we all hate.

1)A plugged up superglue bottle
2)The stink of a denture being reduced prior to relining
3)Power breaker pops and your porc oven shuts off mid cycle on a big multi powder bridge build up
4)Error12
5)Dropped implant screw
6)Model work swapped in pan by error and the shade is like B1 on one crown and C4 in the other
7)5 bad impressions for a single unit with a note saying "Pick the best one"
8)Dr's handwriting
9)A relatively large error has occured...
10)Update failed to load..
11)02 bottle empty after you nearly burn your hand getting that big ring out and in the casting machine.
12)Broken dies
13)Plaster trap cleaning
14)The smell coming from the bathroom on May6th
15)Amount of cases that magically have to be done and in the office after a 3 day weekend.
16)Mondays
17)Phone calls when your in the middle of something
18)F-ing UPS
19)Crusty denture separator paintbrush
20)Dirty flasks
21)Stinky rag wheels
22)A wire clasp that somehow finds the rag wheel by mistake
23)Empty alcohol torch
24)Auto turn off of electric waxer
25)Misplaced tools
26)Denture tooth shades that are requested as combo porc shades like A2/C4
27)Wet alginate impressions that somehow do not get poured right away
28)Sales tax
29)MDT tax
30)Recharging Fire extinguishers