Pulling teeth

[Scipio]

Fucking savages.

[PDH]

The best way to avoid the problem with baby teeth is to never have children.  That was my plan.

[Ancient Demon]

I don't get it. I thought baby teeth just fell out after a time.

[KRonn]

Back in my day, we tied one end of a string around the tooth, another around a Confederate infantryman, and told Gen. Pickett to take Cemetery Ridge.

I would have thought that the faster moving Cavalry troops would be best suited for the pulling of teeth...also not as likely the horses would become bogged down by a stubborn tooth.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Back in my day, we tied one end of a string around the tooth, another around a Confederate infantryman, and told Gen. Pickett to take Cemetery Ridge.

I would have thought that the faster moving Cavalry troops would be best suited for the pulling of teeth...also not as likely the horses would become bogged down by a stubborn tooth.

The Cavalry might have been TOO fast if you know what I mean.

[jimmy olsen]

My mother painfully pulled out my older siblings' baby teeth for them, but she let me do my own. My half-assed scaredy-cat efforts left me with a deformed smile that led to expensive braces.

What teeth-pulling methods did you use/suffer?

Seriously, this sort of thing should be reserved for professionals.  Every single one of my baby teeth was pulled that way.  The only situation where pulling out your own teeth is acceptable is when you are cast away alone on an island somewhere in the Pacific.

WTF? Talk about getting ripped off, I'm stunned you'd advocate paying for something that will happen on it's own. You don't need a dentist or your mother to pull them out, they'll fall out on their own.

[DGuller]

Sometimes they need a final yank.  However, that's not going to cause crooked teeth no matter how you do it, that's just a myth.

[Strix]

Apples work good.

[garbon]

Apples work good.

Or tootsie rolls.

[Darth Wagtaros]

My mother painfully pulled out my older siblings' baby teeth for them, but she let me do my own. My half-assed scaredy-cat efforts left me with a deformed smile that led to expensive braces.

What teeth-pulling methods did you use/suffer?

Seriously, this sort of thing should be reserved for professionals.  Every single one of my baby teeth was pulled that way.  The only situation where pulling out your own teeth is acceptable is when you are cast away alone on an island somewhere in the Pacific.

WTF? Talk about getting ripped off, I'm stunned you'd advocate paying for something that will happen on it's own. You don't need a dentist or your mother to pull them out, they'll fall out on their own.

I needed one pulled.  It got in the way.  I had a friend growing up who couldn't afford dentists, for awhile he had like a double row of teeth because the baby teeth blocked the adult ones coming in, so they popped up behind or in front of them.  Kinda freaky.

[jimmy olsen]

My mother painfully pulled out my older siblings' baby teeth for them, but she let me do my own. My half-assed scaredy-cat efforts left me with a deformed smile that led to expensive braces.

What teeth-pulling methods did you use/suffer?

Seriously, this sort of thing should be reserved for professionals.  Every single one of my baby teeth was pulled that way.  The only situation where pulling out your own teeth is acceptable is when you are cast away alone on an island somewhere in the Pacific.

WTF? Talk about getting ripped off, I'm stunned you'd advocate paying for something that will happen on it's own. You don't need a dentist or your mother to pull them out, they'll fall out on their own.

I needed one pulled.  It got in the way.  I had a friend growing up who couldn't afford dentists, for awhile he had like a double row of teeth because the baby teeth blocked the adult ones coming in, so they popped up behind or in front of them.  Kinda freaky.

Shark boy?

Obviously in an abnormal situation like that you need some professional assistance, but normally you don't.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Back in my day, we tied one end of a string around the tooth, another around a Confederate infantryman, and told Gen. Pickett to take Cemetery Ridge.

[Malthus]

My wife is a medical oddity in that many of her baby teeth never fell out and there was no "adult" teeth underneath them.

[Darth Wagtaros]

My wife is a medical oddity in that many of her baby teeth never fell out and there was no "adult" teeth underneath them.

Ick. That must suck.

[Josquius]

My wife is a medical oddity in that many of her baby teeth never fell out and there was no "adult" teeth underneath them.

You mean baby-baby teeth or childhood teeth?
The former would really be weird...
I think I have a bit of the latter though, or at least I've never lost some of my teeth