Let’s suppose someone punches you in the jaw, dislodging your molar crown, which instantly goes down your throat before you can react.
The next time you feel nature’s urge, you go in the shower, do your business, and wash it all down the drain. The crown is too big to go down the drain, of course, so it’s just sitting there in the tub. You bag it and head for the dentist. They say it’ll cost $X to get a new one or $100 just to re-cement the old one, which they’ll super-duper-medically sterilize first (alcohol, iodine, mini oven, whatever you want).
How low does X have to be before you just say “No way. Just give me the new one.” Or in other words, how high does X have to be to get you to use the old one?
If it’s been through my own digestive tract, what the hell, reuse it. I might not even tell the dentist the whole story.
Now, if it had been through someone else’s digestive tract…I’d pay a hell of a lot. In fact, I’d say pull the root canal, and give me an implant, whatever it costs, no my insurance won’t cover it. I want to make sure this does not happen again. In fact, I think I would go toothless before I’d have someone else’s shit in my mouth. Even my son’s, and I’ve had his shit in my uterus.
No way I’m shitting in my shower. I’ll write it off as a loss, crap in the toilet as usual, and flush it down. I’ll call my dentist and make an appointment to get a new one fitted.
Also, I try to avoid situations where I’d get punched in the face in the first place.
I wouldn’t pick through my feces looking for it but, if it magically appeared from my bowels, I’d give it a good scrubbing and disinfecting and call it good. Poop isn’t magical; once it’s off, it’s off.
