In a survey of 5,000 people in the UK, six percent claimed that they had done DIY dentistry, including yanking their own teeth and fixing cracked crowns with glue. Apparently they resorted to such self treatment because they couldn't get in to see a National Health Service dentist or pay for private care. From CNN:
One respondent in Lancashire, northern England, claimed to have extracted 14 of their own teeth with a pair of pliers. In Liverpool, one of those collecting data for the survey interviewed three people who had pulled out their own teeth in one morning.
"I took most of my teeth out in the shed with pliers. I have one to go," another respondent wrote.
