Anna Tew said her efforts to remove the fake teeth went on until around 2 a.m. (WKRG)
Posted on 10/29/2018 11:20:54 AM PDT by ETL
An Alabama woman’s $3 finishing touch to her zombie Halloween costume landed her a terrifying trip to the dentist after her fake vampire fangs wouldn’t detach from her actual chompers. Anna Tew, of Mobile County, claims she used the temporary glue that came with the store-purchased fake teeth.
She said her efforts to remove the teeth, which had grown uncomfortably tight in her mouth, went on until around 2 a.m.
“I even took a pair of wire clippers and cut the tips of those two off,” she told WKRG.
Her growing pain led her to search for an emergency dentist who could see her right away. She wound up at Dr. John Murphy’s chair at Alabama Family Dental on Saturday. He told the news outlet that the natural shape of teeth and gums can sometimes cause a product to get stuck.
“He talked about drilling. They had a saw, talked about taking them off in sections, and they couldn’t numb it because they were scared they would actually pull my teeth out,” she told the news outlet. “So he went in and picked and pulled and I squealed like a baby and they got them out.”
Tew said that’s the last time she uses fake teeth and hopes that others learn from her ordeal.
“I will never do it again,” she told the news outlet. “I will never put anything like that again in my mouth.”
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Well, it did say “crazy glue” and “made in China...”
A Halloween to remember—not fondly.
Whoops.
Thanks for the warning!
It looks more vampire than zombie to me.
Funny to read about, but certainly not to experience. Thankfully I have a costume that I wear 24/7 365 or 366 in leap years. 8>)
“I will never put anything like that again in my mouth.”
How did a quote from Monica Lewinsky get in there? ;)
Why would a nice lady like that want to wear Hillary Clinton’s dentures?
Note to self: Always buy the $5 fake teeth, not the $3 ones!
“You’re missing the point, Call!”
A new twist on Halloween generating good business for dentists.
Too many Grim Reapers in the kitchen.
I may be an old grouch, but I liked Halloween a lot more when it was a day for children and those children being generally under ten years old. Now little kids, as they so often are these days, are shunted to the side for adult indulgence.
20 years ago, give or take my brother made me a set of fake ‘vampire teeth’ out of the stuff temporary crowns are mad of.
They were perfect, clipped right on the 6 front upper teeth and super comfy, no glue.
Fast forward 2 years and I thought I should use them again.
Problem is your teeth move over time and once I pushed them into place they WOULD NOT come back out and they all hurt massively.
Thought I was going to lose a couple of them when I finally got a hooked pick up there and yanked them out.
This goes into my ‘never again’ folder...
Grown people wearing halloween costumes. Another sign of perpetual adolescence in America.
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