Child had 500 extra teeth extracted and he's going to be fine

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/child-had-500-extra-teeth-extr.html

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Damn, he’s gonna be the richest 7-year-old in town if he manages to get the tooth fairy to pay up.

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Most of them weren’t much bigger than sand grains.

They couldn’t rate more than a penny each.

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coneheads-3

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aaaaaaaaaanightmarefuelaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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As a survivor of orthodontia, I cringe in sympathetic horror.

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Beat me too it

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Okay this is real nightmare fuel Jesus I am trying not to even imagine this

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I’m glad the kid is fine.

I’m never going to sleep again.

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And I thought it bad when I had to get two sets of wisdom teeth removed.

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Even completely normal children’s faces are just crammed with teeth.

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Not all of us are normal. I still have most of my baby teeth, because there was nothing underneath.

This is the biggest flaw with Intelligent Design: any designer intelligent enough to create this many species would be able to do so without this many construction and design flaws.

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You’ve clearly never worked for a corporate project team.

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Makes me think of Cyriak for some reason…

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Unmentioned: the father was a shark.

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I said intelligent.

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Chaos is a requirement, not a flaw.

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Stupidity is only the difference between intelligence required and intelligence available.

You’ve gotta be intelligent to be stupid.

Well… it’s a tumor.

Yeah, the extra 500 teeth in the X-ray above are all in the speckled region at the bottom left- the higgledy-piggledy teeth over the rest of it aren’t out of the ordinary.

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