Woman Pulls Own Teeth

• Tuesday October 17, 2006 in: Dental Care Tag(s):

  Technorati Tags: dentistry, dental care

  Now this is just so wrong.

  Because of the lack of dental services in her area, a 65-year-old woman from Uralla, in north-eastern New South Wales performed self-dentistry on herself, and pulled one of her own teeth with nose pliers.

  ABC News gives us the gory details:

  Val Shorter lives in an isolated area west of Uralla and says she tried unsuccessfully to make a dental appointment after suffering for a week in excruciating pain.

  She has called for urgent action to improve dental services after an experience she says left her unable to stand.

  "I got the pinched-nose pliers, I opened a bottle of wine I'd won at bowls, had a couple of glasses of wine ... a little bit of Dutch courage," she said.

  "[I] loosened the tooth one way, which really, really truly hurt, loosened it the other way, put the pliers on tightly [and] went forward. [My] knees hit the floor, pliers hit the floor [and the] tooth hit the cupboard."

  
  Even if she had downed that entire wine bottle, that still has got to hurt. But pulling one's own teeth is definitely not as painful, as well as insanely dangerous, as performing a caesarean section on one's self, as this 40-year-old woman had done according to this bit of old news from MSNBC.

  What's next, a woman performing her own facelift?