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."
“FORE!!!”
(Smack!)
“Officer, a golf ball with a boy attached to it just flew over my house! Didn’t see where they went.”
;^)
“Hey... whats your handle on DemocraticUnderground? Just curious...”
Ultimate Conservative.
“Nonsense, the tooth was already loose...ready to come out...”
A tooth need to be extracted along the axis of the tooth. Although a baby tooth has minimal root structure, there is tissues including bone structure involved and that includes the teeth next to it if there are any. If there was pain in pulling it, it wasn’t ready to come out yet... There is rarely pain when a kid looses a baby tooth.
That was my dad, right there.
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