DIY tooth removal (video)

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Unfortunately, if you have the nerves of steel required to attempt this, severing the nerves connecting the tooth to the jaw may prove difficult or impossible…
- BunnyShank
  
  fortunately I need nerves of steel just to watch this, much less do this
  - kansas
    
    Me too. Couldn’t do it.
http://twitter.com/therilesyouknow riley

Thank FSM for Canadian Health Care.
- Chesterfield
  
  It covers dental work?
  - joeposts
    
    Once the jaw is infected, yes.
jimh

Yikes
http://avarana.blogspot.com MarlboroTestMonkey7

See you don’t need any healthcare at all.
simonbarsinister

Is this a demo for a proposed new US health care system?

(see how I avoided naming any names? I’m really trying…)
- blissfulight
  
  You mean the Romney-Ryan Plan: send out an instructional Youtube video for home health care.
  - ldobe
    
    Walk into the butcher shop: DAILY SPECIAL – Appendectomy 2 for the price of 1!
Robert Cruickshank

Shouldn’t he be bleeding like a stuck pig? That looked awfully clean. And not to get all political, but Canadian health care doesn’t cover dentistry. Lots of folks here probably do the brick thing.
- garyg2
  
  I was wondering that, the couple I’ve had out (UK NHS, not free but heavily subsidised :)) bled like Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs.
  
  But from my mouth. Not my Stomach. Obviously.
  - blueelm
    
    If it was quite dead, really infected, and very rotten it might not bleed much or if there is gum disease that is eroding the bone and causing the tooth to be bad it would come out easily without much blood. IOW, if you are healthy and the tooth is healthy it will bleed a lot until it clots. Otherwise, maybe not. I’m assuming though that if you have dental problems bad enough to rip your tooth out then you aren’t healthy. That being said, taking the tooth out might not fix anything.
http://www.spockosbrain.com spocko

Lisa has a dental plan.
- John Vance
  
  She needs braces.
  - http://www.spockosbrain.com spocko
    
    ”This is the gouger, this poker and this happy little fellow is the scraper”
ChicagoD

Really, scenes from Borat 2 are on BoingBoing?
Robert Cruickshank

And of course, when we do this in Canada, we just call it “hockey”
http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075

And he still had to come up with the 50 Zaklatz co-pay for the procedure.
10xor01

Well, at least it’s quick, but it really makes me appreciate my dentist.
bolamig

I’ve been rich, and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.
rob_cornelius

As a side effect of my diabetes I am prone to tooth decay and gum disease due to poor circulation in my gums. In the 3 years since I was diagnosed diabetic I have had to have 4 teeth removed due to severe decay and gum disease. All done on the excellent NHS here in the uk and completely free (the one good side of being diabetic in the uk is that all medical treatment including dental is free, make your own political points there)

However when things get really badly infected basically the local anaesthetic doesn’t work. Having a dentist spend 10 minutes trying to wriggle a tooth out “gently” with no pain relief and being told off for swearing and yelling too loudly makes this almost seem attractive to be honest.
- Boundegar
  
  In a similar situation, I had a dentist tell me the anaesthetic was working fine and the pain was imaginary. Thanks, Weissangel.
Tedhealey

I frigging love YouTube’s video smoothing. Everyone has a steadycam now!
Brian Nelson

I have to wonder about the priorities that our world culture is reinforcing when people don’t have the funds or access for dental care yet they have (and can pay for) smart phones that shoot video.
Andrew Tubbiolo

That’s how you use market forces to take care of medical issues.