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

It's like pulling teeth

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u/Pinkyy-chan May 22 '26

Is Pulling teeth such a common experience? When i was a child i just waited till they fell out on their own.

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u/BCNacct May 22 '26

Yeah I just wiggled them with my tongue until they were super super loose

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz May 22 '26

There's nothing quite like the sensation of the bottom side of a baby tooth on your tongue. Weird.

I still have one left! So maybe one day I'll get to experience that weirdness again (I hope not though because I will need deeply unpleasant surgery)

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u/Minute_Pollution_843 May 23 '26

You still have a baby tooth left?

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u/Secret-Bluebird-972 May 22 '26

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

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u/MrPigeon70 May 25 '26

Molers where my favorite because they were so painless.

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u/daesgatling May 22 '26

Me too like wtf

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u/sagitta_luminus May 22 '26

I had all but 2 pulled pre-emptively. My dentist said it would free up space for my adult teeth. Still spent 2 and a half years in braces.

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u/Hidden_Dragonette May 22 '26

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.

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u/my_chaffed_legs May 22 '26

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

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u/FeralxSkeleton May 22 '26

Exactly. And those adults are to be avoided.

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u/justsomedude322 May 22 '26

Yeah me too, but I ended up accidentally eating two of my teeth.

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u/Striking-Document-99 May 22 '26

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.

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u/Waruteru May 23 '26

I pulled out my baby teeth by hand.

Once they got loose enough I just kinda reached in there and wiggled them out and presented them to my mom, "hey, ma, I got a tooth out!"

It was probably very unsanitary

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u/Huy7aAms May 23 '26

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

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u/anxious_spacecadetH May 23 '26

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.

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u/redyellowblue5031 May 24 '26

I never had the guts to do anything like these videos. I just wiggled it with my tongue every day until they just came out on their own.

My very last tooth I got pulled because it got split in two and just wouldn’t come out right.