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