And now, from "The Teeth Have It" files and Yahoo! News...

Sudiegirl sez: You know, I never owned chattering teeth as a child, but I did own a rubber chicken as an adult. Is that cosmically wrong somehow? Anyway, I'm really amazed at this story, but not so amazed that I wouldn't insert the usual weird comments...read on. And remember, four out of five dentists recommend this blog for their patients who chew gum.

Dentures Removed From Man's Bronchial Tube
Mon Aug 1, 4:38 PM ET

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese man is breathing easier after a surgeon removed a missing set of dentures from one of his bronchial tubes — three years after he lost them in a fall. (OK, I want to know how big his bronchial tubes are if an entire sent of dentures can be lodged in them...were they in one piece or all broken up?)

Surgeon Chen Chun-lei said the unidentified man visited his clinic several days ago complaining of shortness of breath and a high fever. (Well, I would think so! Ouch!)

The man had no idea the missing denture was the culprit, causing a mild case of pneumonia. (Well, that does make sense...when you have something lodged in a bronchial tube, that's bound to happen.)

"He had looked for the missing dentures for three years but they were nowhere to be found," Chen said. (I want to know this...I know if I had looked all over the place for my dentures, and they were found in my lung, I would be positively stupefied, and not smacking my forehead going, "Why didn't I think to look there?")

Chen operated after an X-ray detected an unknown object in one of his bronchial tubes — what turned out to be the missing denture. (Man...that's amazing. It makes me think of people who have objects lodged in their skull or brain and it doesn't even hurt...it sounds like this guy didn't have problems until recently.)

Chen said the 45-year-old man did not suffer serious breathing problems earlier, possibly because the lower denture of eight teeth had stuck in part of the bronchial tube but did not entirely block the passage of air. (Thank heavens for that!)

"The patient might have needed to have part of his lung removed if the denture was not located before it caused severe damage," Chen said Monday. "He was a lucky man to find it when he did." (OK, I have trouble with this statement...technically, he didn't find it, the doctor did. However, if he's like so many of us out there who hate to go to the doctor unless we feel positively putrid, he initially found it in the sense that there was a problem. Oh well, that's just "antics with semantics", as my mother would say.)

Sudiegirl's final opinion?

The "Ipana" toothpaste jingle is going through my head, and I don't know why.

Keep those choppers shiny, Sudesketeers! (what do you think of that name for my fan base of 8?)