Firecrackers and Mouths Don't Mix

This is a neuroscience blog. But occasionally, in my search for neuroscience, I come across an unrelated paper so astonishing that I just have to write about it. This is one of them: An Explosion in the Oral Cavity by a Firecracker, published last month. A 16 year old South Korean boy suffered severe facial injuries after a firecracker exploded in his mouth. The patient explained that he sustained the injury while