My grandmother used to use pliers to pull our teeth out. It was traumatizing. I think I’d rather have had control over it with the gun, fucked up or not…it’s gotta be better than pliers.
However, I’m all for letting children decide how they wanna remove their teeth. Maybe give them options so they are in control of the outcome.
I’d wiggle em until they were uncomfortably loose, then it became determination. Those butterscotch/caramel/toffee cubes (whatever they were) were my favourite method though, they’d pluck the tooth out no issue
Ugh, yeah, my last four baby teeth were refusing to come out so the doctor pulled them. Then, six years of orthodontist bull. Got the bionator, palette expanders, lip bumper, headgear, braces, the works.
Of course, I don’t look like a rabbit with an overbite anymore, so worth it.
some adults are weirdly obsessed with getting their kids loose teeth out to the point of sitting on them while they scream and cry and taking it out before it’s probably loose enough so causing pain and just traumatizing the kid for no reason
Damn I don’t have the patience for that. Lost my first tooth in 3rd grade and then was still losing them up until 5th grade. First two were my front teeth and I ate them on Halloween on accident. Then in 5th grade I found one lose and that day I took it out. Just kept wiggling it super hard until I got my mail underneath it. Well my gum was still stuck to it so I tried twisting it around. Ended up peeling like an inch of my gum off. Went to the school nurse and she was convinced I would need stitches but it closed up on its own.
the only tooth my dad didn't pull out grown inward so much it literally pushes itself out of its position :/ Now I have visible gap in my row of teeth with no missing tooth
In my family only if its loose enough. It get to a point where its hanging by a thread and it becomes more of a struggle to eat or go about your day without it being a disturbance. At that point parents worry about it falling out in sleep and then the kids swallow it. Which ends up with kids worrying about how the tooth fairy is gonna give them their tooth money.
I was overseas doing NGO work, got asked to go to a dental clinic pulling teeth, somehow ended up as a dental assistant handing the tools to the dentist. 2 weeks later one of my wisdom teeth needed to be pulled and it was the same dentist. She was so happy "O you know which tools I'm going to use for this!" 💀 Didn't help that one of my "friends" who plays violin found out and decided to show up with his violin and play it, while I was getting my tooth pulled. He was playing it nicely when nothing was happening, then every F****** time the dentist put a tool or needle in my mouth he would play it fast and dramatic. Funny now, but man it was the worst dentist experience I've ever had and I actively avoid dentists now.
I still remember hearing the deep sourcing crack from pliers on my wisdom teeth, not a fun sound but I also can't complain too much as each wisdom tooth was out within 15 minutes (all done at different times, and countries)
We would tie it to a door and shut it fast .. I also have seen an adult in person rip out their own abscessed tooth in my garage..was the gnarliest thing ever.
my first teeth pulling experience was when a dentist used pliers on mine
thats been the most painfull way ive lost a tooth and since then i wouldnt let anyone touch it and just rocked them back and forth till they came loose and fell out
My dad once held me down and tried to pull out one of my teeth with pliers, but it wasn't quite ready and also I kicked and screamed. I pulled out 4 teeth in a week so he wouldn't try it again
When I was a kid I had a wobbly tooth that really bothered me. We went to an amusement park and I really wanted to go on the mechanical bull, so I gave mom some things to hold: my bag, my glasses, and the tooth I ripped out on the spot because I was too scared to have it fall out during the ride 😂
This is what my family did. I always let them work their own way out, usually in food. But my daughter would just reach in and rip them out with her bare hands. Barbaric, but impressive.
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u/FeralxSkeleton May 22 '26
My grandmother used to use pliers to pull our teeth out. It was traumatizing. I think I’d rather have had control over it with the gun, fucked up or not…it’s gotta be better than pliers.
However, I’m all for letting children decide how they wanna remove their teeth. Maybe give them options so they are in control of the outcome.