Lignobody Knows

Different dental anesthetic. New crystals, new observations.

Hello again.

Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome back to Substack. I so enjoy hearing from and sharing with everyone here. I’m a bit of a recluse, & I hope you’ll understand if my interactions with comments occasionally go quiet. It’s a pleasure to see people meeting here and continuing these discussions. If I have an ultimate goal with all this, it’s to open these topics up to a broader audience.

Whereas others may have heads for compiling papers and data; my way of learning is tactile and visual. I require firsthand experience with a thing before I’ll ever feel authoritative discussing it. It can be a slow process, and it leads to a lot of dropped balls. But the upside is when the knowledge clicks, it sticks and gets filed with that same kind of muscle memory that never lets you forget how to ride a bike.

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With that out of the way: on to the topic at hand.

Here are a few videos and images of a different type of dental anesthetic. To avoid making too large a target of myself I’ll refrain from naming it here specifically. Perhaps a useless precaution, but savvy readers should have no trouble inferring the product name from the title.

Captured here are further examples of the process by which crystalline structures emerge & dissipate from within a liquid sample. Seemingly constructed via a mixing process in the millions of nested cell/bubbles swirling all throughout a single droplet of the formula. An endlessly fascinating chain-reaction: you may well agree.

Next is what I’m calling a “perturbation exercise”. If a different word sprang to mind when you first read that, get your mind out of the gutter!

To better visualize the consistency and compositional nature of this substance, I employ the use of very fine acupuncture needles to physically disrupt the sample. After viewing a particular microscopic environment for so long, we can come to rely on presumptions in order to reasonably conceptualize the nature of what we’re seeing. I find it can help to better contextualize these puzzling phenomena by essentially poking them with a stick. Primitive I know, but it adds a tactile component to what is otherwise an entirely visual pursuit.

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Adding Crystal Violet

Finally, here are a few interesting images of the same product combined with crystal violet stain. Can’t say exactly what they demonstrate, but sometimes all that’s required is to look pretty.

Various crystals with Crystal Violet stain

Below: Small crystalline sprouts pepper fields of anesthetic that didn't culminate in larger structures. They're unique snowflake-like appearance invited further examination. It seems reasonable to presume that stains with their particular chemical characteristics merge to form composite structures in tandem with the dental anesthetic, producing unique configurations in crystal structures. These mingling elements may be producing hybrid crystalline forms that would otherwise not develop alone from their respective component ingredients.

Tiny, highly symmetrical snowflake crystals

I think that’s about all for now. It has really been a privilege to have the chance to observe some of these unique products and reactions. I’ve been following the injec-tech topic for a few years now and this essentially became a personal goal of mine that has now been achieved.

One final observation here in comparison to the types of crystal structures that developed out of the orabloc anesthetic: these structures seem to develop much clearer. The orabloc structures were usually very cloudy and opaque. subsequent reapplications of the formula would eventually result in clearer crystals. But this product makes clear crystals routinely upon initial application.

Please look forward to further posts as I eventually collate my backlog.

Until next time.

-Will