Posted on 01/04/2015 7:46:47 AM PST by Brother Cracker
WASHINGTON, - An American dad made himself and his 7-year-old son into viral stars with a video chronicling a baby tooth extraction using dental floss, a golf club and a golf ball.
Phil Smith said his son, Noah, complained of pain when they attempted to simply pull the loose tooth out of his mouth, so he devised a system using a piece of floss to connect the tooth to a golf ball he then struck with a club.
"My 7-year-old wanted to pull his tooth but was concerned it would be too painful to pull SLOWLY," Smith wrote in the description of the video posted to YouTube. "So we did it QUICKLY and in his words with no pain, just a little fear."
The video, which appears to have been shot somewhere in the United States, has gone viral on YouTube, with commenters' opinions ranging from calling the stunt "child abuse" to "teeth pulling done right."
Mine got loose. When they started bothering me, I'd wriggle them back and forth until they got even looser, then I'd pull them out, or my mother would do it for me if I couldn't get a good grip on it. No big deal.
Hah...that was great...
Oh' horsepuckey...
His kid will remember this for the rest of his life...
I'm sure it will put a smile on his face every time he does...
As for being damaging to to his gum tissue...
Nonsense, the tooth was already loose...ready to come out...
He kinda looks like Glen Beck. he’s screwed.
I was going to post the concept as a gag but...I guess we live in a world where every idiotic gag becomes a youtube video.
In The Fighting Sullivans movie, dad shows a son how he will tie the string to the tooth and a doorknob, then dad loses his gold tooth during the demonstration.
My older bro did the door nob thing for me. I didn’t quite understand his great joy in the matter.
Here, hold muh beer.
He’ll tell the story to his son...as he slams the door.
I never understood the need to “pull” a baby tooth. They just work loose and come out fairly easily with minimal pain on their own, eventually.
Not to be a boor, but one can't help but wonder, would it have been if it weren't for people trying to come up with videos?
And if not, then "the medium is the message" indeed./deep philosphical rant
I think it’s preemptive. One might swallow it accidentally in the night. And then what’ve you got?
At least he is not standing on the dog.
If they’re that worried about the tooth fairy, they could always keep an eye out for it, lol.
So someone whistles for the dog and the floss that’s tied to the cabinet door-pull yanks out the tooth?
I’ve told this before on FR but here goes again. Daughter’s two front teeth were loose. She and hubby were swimming and he was pulling her around by a rope attached to a floatie. I had a mommy moment and went rushing to the door to tell her not to put the rope in her mouth but as I put my hand on the doorknob she let out blood curdling screams. She ran in the house with blood streaming down her face and was crying something terrible not about the teeth but that the Tooth Fairy wouldn’t be able to find the teeth.
That happened in the summer and by Christmas there was no sign whatsoever of new teeth coming in. We took her to see Santa and told her to tell him all she wanted for Christmas was her two front teeth. The next morning both teeth were halfway grown. Neither of us ever saw anything like it. A Christmas miracle.
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