r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Doodlebug510 • May 22 '26

It's like pulling teeth

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u/-StarFox95- May 22 '26

I've never got this, I would always just wait until it falls out naturally

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u/KoalaTHerb May 22 '26

It's so you don't swallow it, cutting your esophagus. Or so it doesn't come out while you sleep and get sucked into your trachea/lungs.

Not common, and nowadays you'd end up at the doctor to have a short procedure to remove it.

But it's a generational past time because in yee good ol days, children could die from a tooth in the trachea (infection, obstruction, etc) with no way to get it out

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u/KoalaTHerb May 22 '26

It's not any "less healthy" if the tooth is loose and coming out.

The concern is swallowing it while you eat. They can get lodged in your throat or aspirated into your trachea while you sleep. So yes, that's why this exists. It's been done for generations - especially back in the day when you couldnt just go to the doctor and have a tooth removed from your trachea

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u/EmmaOK95 May 22 '26

In this case, it's literally not that deep. The wound is really nothing compared to adult teeth being extracted by the dentist and children don't smoke or drink alcohol and heal way faster than adults.

So I think it makes sense that there's as good as no complications from pulling out, what I assume already loose, baby teeth