Parents did the “tie a string to my tooth and the door” thing when I was a kid. My dad also held me down while I was screaming, and the tooth fell out before he could get the pliers on it.
How did your parents remove your loose teeth?
Whiskey and a hammer. Strangest 25th birthday ever.
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Ahahaha
I licked them until they fall off. Painless, effective, without bleeding.
The easiest method. take to the dentist. That or the thumb and finger pinch method. It very easy, less painful and cause the child much less trauma. basically, put the thumb on gum under the tooth and push up while the index finger applies pressure. then get vanilla extract to kill pain and done.
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That’s a pretty traumatizing method. >.>
Mine just used dental floss. Work it under the tooth then yank it up. Half the time my teeth just fell out eventually on their own, or if I bit into something.
You know those mardi gras cakes with the little plastic babies in them? I once bit into the baby accidentally and came out with blood and a tooth. Never been so betrayed by a cake before.
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It was so long ago that I don’t remember.
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Mine usually came out while I was eating. Didn’t swallow any though.
My daughter actually had to have a few removed via the dentist because they were impacted. Both of my sons’ loose teeth just popped out when they were ready.
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I think I mostly just wiggled my teeth until they popped out on their own… except for one of my premolars, which required a dentist and was impacted.
Most of mine fell out by themselves. Once I woke up in the morning and spit out a tooth.
OH! funny story. Growing up, my sister and I had a little plastic molar. I don’t know where we got it or why we had it but I used to freak out babysitters with it.
I’d put it in my mouth and have my sister hit me in the head with something soft and I’d spit it out. One babysitter almost called 911.
Good times. ![:smiley:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smiley.png?v=6" ":smiley:")
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One of my front teeth went grey and refuse to come out.
Dad tried fishing line and door. The fishing line snapped and the tooth didn’t budge.
Eventually came out with a lot of blood on its own and the adult tooth was at like 90 degrees. Other tooth next to it was a similar angle. Good thing bracers exist.
I lost a tooth in a chocolate Easter bunny once.
As a child, I pulled at least one or two out myself. The rest of my baby teeth just came out on their own.
They brought me to the dentist.
When I was little while playing airplane with my Dad, (laying on his back and holding me up in the air.) I slipped and fell, I hit his knee and it knocked my front tooth out. We had a small issue with CPS because whenever someone asked me about my tooth I would tell them “My Dad knocked it out!” poor Dad.
Mine just fell out naturally. I would generally fiddle around with the tooth though as it was coming loose. I learned it a bit too late as I was in 5th grade and losing the last of the baby teeth but I found just closing your mouth and sucking inward as hard as you can was good at removing teeth that were like two days from coming out.
Then as an adult with a filling, I learned fillings are apparently really weak to jolly ranchers. Filling never had problems. Bought a giant bag of Jolly Ranchers and it just decided then it had enough. Or maybe the timing was a bit off?
I was always a fan of tooth and string. I would just tug on it through out the day off and on. The worst scenario was when one popped out and flew across the room imbedding its self in the nose of a wax figure my mother had on her dinning room table.
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Naturally after licking/nudging for quite a while, or just biting something like an apple and poof it came out.
Sign them up for hockey. Train them to be a goon.
The problem will take care of itself.
Idk but I had my wisdom teeth out Friday I thought they were gonna pull my jaw off lol.