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"Bob Masta" <NoSpam@daqarta.com> wrote in message 
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> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:06:00 -0500, "Mike Rieves" <mriev@hotspam.com>
> wrote:
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>>  I remember seeing this thing on the TV program "I've Got a Secret" in 
>> the
>>late fifties or early sixties. (I saw a rerun of that show on the Game
>>networt a couple of years ago). I remember there were arguments in the 
>>press
>>at the time as to where it was really transmitting via RF or merely audio
>>transmitted by bone conduction. As best I remember, there were well-known
>>experts on both sides of the argument.
>>  Also, Lucille Ball claimed to have heard a picked up a radio broadcast 
>> on
>>a filling while passing by a station after a visit from her dentist.
>>
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> That Lucille Ball story has also been pretty roundly criticized, and
> there isn't a shred of documentation in support of it.  (She was
> supposed to have intercepted code from a Japanese spy transmitter,
> leading to the arrest of the spy.  But no records of that arrest have
> ever been found.)

 It's remotely possible that the arrest was kept confidential for security 
reasons, however I agree that the story is highly unlikely to have been 
true. The TV show "Mythbusters" took this one on in episode 4, the result: 
myth busted!

> I believe all the "dental radio" stories are in the "urban legend"
> category.  At least, I have never been able to validate one.
> It's always something we've just "heard about" (so to speak!).

I agree.

> There are several reasons why dental radio is unlikely, not the
> least of which is that the supposed "diode" from the fillings is
> without an antenna, in an enclosure made of a pretty good
> conductor (saltwater, basically).  So the best you could possibly
> hope for would be a few microvolts *in your tooth*.  Now, even
> assuming this signal could get the nerve beneath it to fire,
> and even considering that some of those nerves may leak
> signals into the auditory nerve, you'd still be left with the
> single-channel problem:  The best you could *possibly* hope
> for would be a string of buzzes.
>
> On the other hand, it is much more plausible that these cases
> (if any real ones exist) are auditory hallucinations, possibly
> stimulated by real acoustic noise from TMJ (tempro-mandibular
> joint) problems, or slightly occluded blood vessels.  Or even
> stimulated by tinnitus, which may or may not be acoustic but
> in some people can be a broadband effect unlike the more
> usual "riinging in the ears".  Broadband noise can definitely
> produce "radio station" illusions under the proper conditions,
> and I hope to write a paper decribing this in detail in the near
> future.

   I agree here too. The Neurophone however, is a totally different animal. 
I notice that at www.neurophone.com they are talking about ultrasonic 
transmission, rather than RF transmission, which I think may be plausible, 
though I'm far from an expert on the subject.