Scuba dentist performs death-defying fete, revealed by Danbury, CT dentist Jay M. Marks, DMD

You may think you know what this scuba diver is doing, but I bet you are wrong.  This is actually a diver in the Bahamas named Christina Zenota.  Dr. Marks explains how she uses a unique method of anesthetizing sharks, which is not yet accepted as a method for human use.  She turns the sharks over on their backs and/or massages their noses (please don’t try this at the beach).  This seems to hypnotize her “patients”.  She removes fishing hooks from sharks, which seems to happen more often than you would think.

Talking about shark teeth, Dr. Marks points out some interesting facts:

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• Shark’s teeth aren’t attached to roots or gums like our teeth.
• They generally lose a minimum of at least 1 tooth per week.
• They lose their teeth when they get stuck in their prey and are fractured out.
• Their teeth are placed in neat rows and are replaced within a day of losing one.
• Sharks can have up to 15 rows of teeth in each jaw, but most have around 5 rows. The bull shark can have 50 rows of teeth.
• Shark teeth can be found on many beaches since sharks shed 1000’s of teeth during their lifetime.
• Shark teeth are common fossils.  It takes about 10,000 yrs for the teeth to fossilize. The most common shark teeth fossils are from an era of 65,000 years ago (the Cenozoic era).
• Baby sharks have a complete set of teeth when they are born and immediately swim away from their mothers to hunt for themselves.
• Gigantic Whale Sharks average over 3,000 tiny teeth that have little use, since they are filter feeders and sift food through their gills.
• A tooth of a prehistoric megalodon shark can be from from 3.5 to 7 inches in length, & can weigh more than a pound!
• Recently it was discovered that shark’s teeth contain fluoride.
• Sharks don’t get cavities- since their teeth keep falling out!
• The enamel of their teeth are acid resistant and not as water soluble as human teeth.
• Shark’s and human teeth have the same hardness as each other.

As you can see, sharks don’t have to worry about cavities, or gum disease, or the need for dentures, or orthodontics, or root canals. This is good for them since sharks are not eligible for dental insurance!

Sharks have existed on earth longer than trees, so when we are that old, we won’t need dentists any more!

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