Are we on the same page? Looking at the entry in Namus, I don't see where he had lots of dental work. I don't really know how to read dental charts, but I would guess it says he had 2 cavities??? The best way I can picture the hair is he had his head shaved with a pony tail on the back of his head. Pretty weird, but not for San Francisco. The translation of the info about the gay friend I would guess to be that he actually had a gay lover who died of AIDS.
Hi Redbird, with the dental chart I think you're looking at the bit that says Comments and says "22. Facial caries; pronounced wear facet
23: Facial caries"
If you look at the bit above that, there's a table with numbers and letters. The number indicated the tooth, the letter indicates the condition of the tooth. Here's a screenshot:
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So: teeth 1, 16, 17, and 30 have been removed.
Fillings in teeth 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32
Cavities/caries in 22, 23.
Crowns on teeth 14 and 19.
Normal teeth with no work: 6, 24, 25, 26
And teeth 8, 9, 10 postmortem missing/not recovered.
And here's teeth numbering on a set of false teeth that makes it a bit clearer: <modsnip: broken image link>
And I just think that that's a very large amount of dental work for an 18 year old to have.
Which RE: questions to ask police reminds me, one good question would be what if any memorable dental work did Farren have? Doenetwork says Dentals are not available for him, but does anyone know if he had ANY dental work done at all, or at least if he had any wisdom teeth taken out, things like that?