Parents Pull Child's Tooth With RC Car

Asylum.com ^ | Danny Gallagher

[Thirteen]

Health-care reform might have become just another political ploy to earn votes come Election Day up on Capitol Hill -- but it's causing some parents to resort to Middle Ages-style medicine that even Theodoric of York wouldn't prescribe.

We don't know if the lack of adequate dental care in the country forced these two parents to pull their child's loose tooth out the "Radio Shack way" -- tying one end of a string around the tooth and another to the end of a remote-controlled car and sending it barreling toward a makeshift ramp at Mach 2 -- but we're pretty sure Child Protective Services might be able to recommend a more suitable dental professional.

Watch the video while we dial the White Trash Tooth Fairy ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIq-vG7tm8s

[Soothesayer9]

I have often wondered if people in the dark ages were in constant agony due to rotten teeth and of course, no dentists.

But then again..did most even have teeth in their older years?

Or for that matter, candy?

[LukeL]

Actually only the rich had bad teeth, the poor ate only vegetables and meat and bread thus their teeth didn't rot as much and also drinking only water helped.

The rich would have drunk a ton of wine, and beer and eaten a ton of sweets and other goodies.

[Rebelbase]

Good way to save on dental bills.

[fhayek]

This brings to mind a story my father used to tell. He was friends with a gentleman who owned a working class bar in western New York. The owner, who was tending bar, complained about a toothache. My father, was, uh, a reliable patron, and volunteered to pull the tooth, if someone could find a pair of pliers. You need to understand that this was a bar, and that alcohol was involved. Of course, everybody at the bar assumed that my father was joking. In due course, someone came up with the pliers. My father, with much solemn ceremony, ordered that the pliers be soaked in a glass of vodka to sterilize them. The barkeep, in his agony, readily complied. Alcohol has a way of adding momentum to absurd situations, and soon my father was cradling the barkeep in the crook of his arm as the rest of the incredulous bar flies watched. In went the pliers, out came the tooth. Dad told the proprietor to down a shot of whiskey. Two guys at the end of the bar who were just passing through downed their drinks and immediately exited the premises. They say that the extracted tooth was glued in a place of honor behind the bar and is there to this very day. True story.

[right way right]

He did pull the right one?

I hate when you miss it the first time.

[Soothesayer9]

So then, beer and wine = bad for the teeth? I didn’t know that. :)

[fhayek]

The next day, it was ascertained that he did, in fact, pull the offending tooth.

[Doogle]

"..the kid got one of those radio control cars for Christmas didn't he?"

"ah hun"

"watta we gonna do?"

[skr]

Peanut butter sandwiches can be effective. I think I used the doorknob method once. I recall pulling one out manually. I had an extra set of teeth, so I got to try a few different methods when my juvenile teeth didn’t fall out by themselves.

[Roccus]

My Dad tied a string around a loose tooth of mine. Tied the other end to the doorknob of an open door and slammed the door closed....tooth gone. Of course, this was a baby tooth.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The redneck version of the old tie-the-tooth-to-a-doorknob trick?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Flours of olden days were laden with sand. The teeth of the poor might not have suffered from sweets but they were badly abraded from the grit in the bread.

[R. Scott]

Child Protective Services?
It was a baby tooth ready to fall out. I pulled a couple myself when I was a kid - tie one end to the tooth, the other to a door knob and slam the door. It was better than accidentally swallowing it.

[CalvaryJohn]

As long as it was ready, no problem. My ex pulled her boy’s two front uppers before they were ready. He was screaming bloody murder and dripping blood on the floor. Oh, and that was one of her better qualities.

[Tax-chick]

Yeah, traumatize the kid so he’ll never go to the dentist for the rest of his life.

[Walmartian]

Stairs don’t appear to meet code.

[fieldmarshaldj]

She must’ve been fun on your wedding night.

[Slings and Arrows]

Video includes kitteh dental assistant.

[the long march]

peeples are pretteh stuped but the dental assistant was da best