Posted: 6/13/2013 1:05:56 PM EDT
I was fleshing out a bear skull last night for the beetles when I discovered a wicked injury on the lower jaw. That must have hurt like crazy!
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Originally Posted By rizzo1318:
Originally Posted By Ken_in_Va:
Is that a piece of bone? Yes, a very dead piece of bone. Lots of infection inside the cavity behind the tooth. Damn, that guy was hurting |
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Originally Posted By Balista:
That's osteomyelitis with some bone necrosis = sick bear. Tell me more. I'm always interested in the medical concepts behind these injuries. If you want to see some more crazy damage from skulls I have cleaned, let me know and I will post them up. Used to have a skull thread in the Small Game forum but it went away, so I'll have to repost the pics here. |
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Originally Posted By rizzo1318:
Originally Posted By Balista:
That's osteomyelitis with some bone necrosis = sick bear. Tell me more. I'm always interested in the medical concepts behind these injuries. If you want to see some more crazy damage from skulls I have cleaned, let me know and I will post them up. Used to have a skull thread in the Small Game forum but it went away, so I'll have to repost the pics here. Yes please post more pics. |
Originally Posted By swingset:
I feel like printing this thread out on some quality paper, so I can go wipe my ass with it.
I feel like printing this thread out on some quality paper, so I can go wipe my ass with it.
Here's a bear skull from a hunter in Oregon - this bear had some kind of serious tumor in his jaw that destroyed a lot of bone and made other parts of the jaw grow out in a werid way. This is one of the nastiest injuries I have ever seen on a skull that I have cleaned.
Look at the left part of the jaw and you can see where the bone and teeth are all messed up. 
Here's a bobcat that had broken canine teeth. 
Here's a gray fox (bad picture) that had almost no teeth left to chew with! 
I have other pictures of crazy injuries on skulls that I have cleaned, I'll have to see what I can dig up when I have the time. And for anyone who is interested, here is the archived thread that I used to post a lot of skull pictures in. I got too busy to post pictures and then when I went to post some new pics the thread was gone! Bummer. Skull thread in archives. |
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Originally Posted By disorientedpilot:
The amount of porosity in that injury is incredible. You'd think that bear would have just run in front of a semi at that point... or he was actively trying to break his tooth out. I'm finishing up 2 other bear skulls right now, and they have messed up teeth, as well - though not as bad. In fact, most of the bear skulls I clean have broken teeth, missing teeth, busted jaws, etc. The life of a bear is a tough life, it seems. |
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Here's the cleaned up bear skull from the OP - that tooth is barely hanging on!
And here's another black bear skull I recently finished that was aged at 18 years old (tooth extract) - lots of busted up teeth: 
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Originally Posted By GENESMITH:
Yes please post more pics. Originally Posted By GENESMITH:
Originally Posted By rizzo1318:
Originally Posted By Balista:
That's osteomyelitis with some bone necrosis = sick bear. Tell me more. I'm always interested in the medical concepts behind these injuries. If you want to see some more crazy damage from skulls I have cleaned, let me know and I will post them up. Used to have a skull thread in the Small Game forum but it went away, so I'll have to repost the pics here. Yes please post more pics. +1 |
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Originally Posted By nightdh:
+1 Originally Posted By nightdh:
Originally Posted By GENESMITH:
Yes please post more pics. +1 I recently put up a new skulls thread in the Small Game and Trapping forum - lots of skull pictures plus I step-by-step of the cleaning process done in photos. Skull Cleaning - it's fun, gross, and amazing |
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Originally Posted By rizzo1318:
I recently put up a new skulls thread in the Small Game and Trapping forum - lots of skull pictures plus I step-by-step of the cleaning process done in photos. Skull Cleaning - it's fun, gross, and amazing Originally Posted By rizzo1318:
Originally Posted By nightdh:
Originally Posted By GENESMITH:
Yes please post more pics. +1 I recently put up a new skulls thread in the Small Game and Trapping forum - lots of skull pictures plus I step-by-step of the cleaning process done in photos. Skull Cleaning - it's fun, gross, and amazing Thank you |
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