Posted on 09/10/2020 2:05:05 PM PDT by packrat35
GRIPPING hard onto his pliers, Debroy Parrington took a deep breath and prepared to use all his strength to pull down and rip out his own tooth.
The granddad-of-five had been driven to take drastic action after days of agonising pain from an infected tooth, with no option of seeing a dentist for professional help in the height of lockdown.
He's far from alone, as a recent study found one in four British households opted for at least one form of DIY dentistry during lockdown.
Local practices were told to suspend routine face-to-face services on March 25 and to set up local UDC hubs to treat patients with urgent needs. But it's meant a huge backlog now, with people still struggling to get appointments.
A poll, carried out by the Association of Dental Groups, found 7.6 per cent of those had tried to extract a tooth themselves - and experts are now warning of the dangers of trying it at home.
"Trying to extract your own tooth often leads to permanent damage and more trips to the dentist to get it put right," Neil Carmichael, the Association's Chair, tells Sun Online.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
Well it is the Brits after all. Not necessarily know for their oral hygiene.
They jokes just write themselves.
I’ve done it, whiskey helps.
Paging Lemming of the BDA
Haven’t the Brits always had DIY dentistry?
Call up Inspector Clouseau.
During the covid, I tried to pick some corn out of one of my back molars with my fingernail the tooth broke and now I have about half the side missing. It doesn’t hurt, but collects a bunch of food for later. Guess I will go in soon. I wouldn’t want to take my own tooth out, but if needed I got the skills and whiskey.
The Brits invented the toothbrush.
Had it been invented in America, it would be called a teethbrush.
When its broke it’s hard to get a grip on a molar.
LOL!
String to door handle.
Slam.
Leftovers...
Just make sure you are still pulling the right tooth.
There was a Pink Panther movie that highlighted such problems while inebriated with laughing gas.
There is at least one episode of The Three Stooges where Curly gets one of his molar teeth ‘extracted’ by tying a string to a doorknob just as you describe. Mo slammed the door, and after a Rube-Goldberg series of actions, the string goes taunt, and plucks the tooth out.
So, as Janet Napolitano once said; “The System Worked!”
A friend of mine did home dentistry on himself. He got good and drunk and pulled his own front tooth. The problem came the next morning when he woke up and realized he pulled the wrong tooth because he was looking in the mirror. Well back to the drawing board. He had less of a choice the second time.
Hurts me to think about it.
must be a lie, everyone knows socialized medicine is a paradise!
/s
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