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A growing body of research shows that people with red hair need larger doses of anesthesia and often are resistant to local pain blockers like Novocaine.

Researchers believe redheads are more sensitive to pain because of a mutation in a gene that affects hair color.

A 2004 study showed that redheads require, on average, about 20 percent more general anesthesia than people with dark hair or blond coloring. And in 2005, researchers found that redheads are more resistant to the effects of local anesthesia, such as the numbing drugs used by dentists.

The mutation in the MC1R gene also occurs in brunets, although it’s less common. In the latest study, the researchers tested for the MC1R gene variant, finding it in 65 of 67 redheads and in 20 of 77 people with brown or black hair. ....

I can think of at least four doctors who could benefit from understanding that making a patient feel like a hallucinating, crazy, lying baby when they are actually feeling their root canal is not okay, and I’m glad there’s some public ’science’ to back this up now.

lownotes wrote:Redheads are hot.

Spoiler:

Arbitrator wrote:NSFW

Spoiler:

lownotes wrote: But most of them are batshit crazy.

Arbitrator wrote:

lownotes wrote: But most of them are batshit crazy.

Out of the ones I posted? That's because most of them are women.

lownotes wrote: Out of all of them that I've ever met or known. Hey....crazy in the head, crazy in the bed.

Nickyboy wrote:Arbi,

pic #3: send me her contact info!

lownotes wrote:

Arbitrator wrote:

lownotes wrote: But most of them are batshit crazy.

Out of the ones I posted? That's because most of them are women.

Out of all of them that I've ever met or known. Hey....crazy in the head, crazy in the bed.

Arbitrator wrote:

Nickyboy wrote:Arbi,

pic #3: send me her contact info!

You've already got one woman. Leave some for the rest of us.

There is also the issue of non-standard nerve placement in the jaw - yes, I’m one of those anesthetic-resistant redheads, but my dental trauma stems more from the fact that not until I was close to 30 did a dentist realize that the nerves in my teeth and jaw did not correspond to the usual “wiring diagram.” They’d been shooting Novocaine into the wrong spots for years! I’m told that 10%-20% of people have this issue? Thank goodness I finally found a competent dentist…but I wonder how many cases of dentist phobia are related to this.
— Testarossa

lownotes wrote:I read that in the UK redheads are consider dorky and uncool. When it's time to move I may have to go to Ireland and get a dorky Irish gal.

Nickyboy wrote:Arbi,

pic #3: send me her contact info!

JazzyRandy wrote:I vote for #8 as this thread's queen of hotness.

JazzyRandy wrote:I vote for #8 as this thread's queen of hotness.

jeepguy wrote:mben is just gay. that is clear

michaelben wrote:

jeepguy wrote:mben is just gay. that is clear

rats. i picked the wrong one?

Arbitrator wrote:

michaelben wrote:

jeepguy wrote:mben is just gay. that is clear

rats. i picked the wrong one?

No. There is a clear wrong one and you did not pick it.

jeepguy wrote:

Arbitrator wrote:

michaelben wrote:

jeepguy wrote:mben is just gay. that is clear

rats. i picked the wrong one?

No. There is a clear wrong one and you did not pick it.

no. that's the one he REALLY picked but won't admit to

jeepguy wrote: no. that's the one he REALLY picked but won't admit to

michaelben wrote:i was just trying to fit in.

#6 is my #2. the spoiler is my #1 even though clowns, even when beefcake, kind of creep me out.

Johniecshot wrote:

michaelben wrote:i was just trying to fit in.

#6 is my #2. the spoiler is my #1 even though clowns, even when beefcake, kind of creep me out.

Carrot Top creeps me out....Carrot Top dressed as Ronald McDonald is a reason to register him as a sexual offender....

michaelben wrote:speaking of creepy. target was putting out all of the halloween/thanksgiving decorations this weekend.

Arbitrator wrote:

JazzyRandy wrote:I vote for #8 as this thread's queen of hotness.

Angelica Bridges. Yeah, there's something about that picture that just works.

The last one before the spoiler is also a favorite of mine.

zambies wrote:#3 looks remarkably like my girlfriend, to the degree where I wondering how Arbitrator managed to obtain a picture of her.

zambies wrote:#3 looks remarkably like my girlfriend, to the degree where I wondering how Arbitrator managed to obtain a picture of her.

Grapes of Wrath wrote:#1 and #3, no contest. Most of the others look a little too... constructed.
You missed my favorites:
(okay, I know she's a bit young, but... at least her character is in college in this season).

willow-rosenberg.jpg

Agent Scully's character is sexy, but her photographs are only so-so.

scully.jpg

Grapes of Wrath wrote:You missed my favorites:
(okay, I know she's a bit young, but... at least her character is in college in this season).

willow-rosenberg.jpg

michaelben wrote:i read a summary of that research. my partner makes so much more sense now.

Chris16vRocco wrote:Numbers 3 and 4 are the winners as far as I'm concerned.

azimuth wrote:

Grapes of Wrath wrote:You missed my favorites:
(okay, I know she's a bit young, but... at least her character is in college in this season).

willow-rosenberg.jpg

It's okay. Alyson Hannigan is going on 35½.