Deadly toothache...yeah, seriously.

This article reminds me of a kid at my elementary school. His family didn't have health insurance of any kind and his parents didn't really care, so what started out as a cavity became an infection bad enough to swell up half his mouth and made it difficult for him to talk at all. Several of the teachers finally intervened at that point. I forget what they did exactly, but I think they had child services force his parents to take him to a dentist.

I didn't realize that tooth infections could spread to the brain, though it makes sense. What a horrible way to go too; excruciating pain for several weeks, followed by several brain surgeries.

Jam it back in, in the dark.