had to pull out my own tooth..

The that tooth must have had a root canal previously because I did remove a tooth on my own because I couldn’t get to the dentist and the pain was intense I couldn’t do it myself had to have a fiend with nerves of steal rip it out with a par of players with cloth around the metal I’d that makes sense

It was very painful for days

yes those tools can place a enormous amount of pressure a the tip and can easily pierce the enamel.

you notice they do this at the end of the visit.

no ive never had a root canal BTM...

took me several days to get the nerve up and then i just sat and watched MORE videos until i couldnt take the wiggling anymore.

yes that is why im asking...
i have always thought it was a bad thing to do.
kind of like MAKING cavities so they get repeat business.
idk.

i couldnt do the PLIERS method...it hurt when i pulled on it.
so the FAST method was preferable.

i watched several men pull out their own teeth with pliers.
omg!!
im not that bad ass.

Teeth get loose from advanced periodontal disease. The body reacts by resorbing the bone. The bone holds the tooth in place, so once enough has resorbed the tooth becomes loose. You are really lucky because hooked roots like that typically end up being a surgical extraction.

BURP! YOU'RE WELCOME..I 'KNEW' LONG TIME SINCE NO X RAY...MAY WANT TO GO GET ONE AN 'SEE' INTO YOUR POSSIBLE FUTURE....OF DENTAL ISSUES. UH.

VERY LUCKY! UH.

OP! HOW OLD ARE YOU?!...YOU HAVE 'YOUNG' LOOKING HANDS..UH.

UH!

It is NOT that big a deal to pull a lose tooth. It doesn't hurt that bad. You never want that socket that remains to get debris in it while it heals or it will get infected and causing searing pain.

TCOB

Dad heard muffled yells coming from the barn . Went in to see what it was and found grandpa hanging from a rafter with a piece of bailing wire in his mouth .

He wired it up got on a ladder and kicked the ladder over but the tooth did not pull out .
Dad helped him down by grabbing his pant legs and giving them a good jerk . true story . Grandpa thanked him for it .

Yikes, that's horrible

What other medical procedures have you performed upon yourself?

omg...

sounds like it wasnt ready!

instead of getting a whole bunch of stitches in the bottom of my foot from walking on broken glass
(the pad under the big toe on my sole, 3 inches wide, just gaping open)
i soaked it in epsom salts many times a day until it healed.
every time it started to throb and get hot, id go soak in a hot bathtub with epsom salts until it stopped.
it was horribly deep and long, not to the bone though.
it bulged outwards and look nasty but i had read a story about a little farm girl running barefoot and having the old rusty filty pitchfork go through and out of the top of her foot, so her mother soaked it daily in epsom salts because they lived so far from town.

epsom literally PULLS the toxins and bacteria and infection OUT of the body.
i had to see for myself, plus i couldnt afford a dr visit.
it worked great!
healed MUCH quicker than without soaking and it could knock the pain down so much which is the best part imo.

the gash sealed up nicely, all on its own, i didnt keep it bandaged but let it air out in between soaks.
it healed very fast and no infection ever took hold.
the epsom would pull ANY infection out.
it took LESS than two weeks...after a week i was mostly healed.not all the way but close.just amazing to me.

idk why doctors dont do this more.
its so simple, its a KNOWN aid and is so cheap@
i never forced the gash closed but let it do it all by itself.
ill have to dig for that picture its quite nasty.

maybe the curve on the roots was curved in such a way that the weight worked with the curve. could have been a different story if the curve had been the other way. glad it worked out for you. sounds like if it was that loose needed a dentist anyway if something did go wrong.

most dentists will pull bad teeth pro bono, for future reference

you kind of want to stay on top of periodontal disease, or you'll end up having 32 teeth pulled at once

that was a bad day

I can't imagine losing a tooth . It must be very painful . my sympathy extended for your pain and loss .

Does that tooth only have two roots? If that's a back molar, it should have four. Perhaps two broke and they're still in the "hole". That would account for the looseness. I know you pride yourself on self-healing, but I'd get that checked out.

Damn, that's pretty hardcore. And that root with the wicked curve sure didn't make things any easier.

Good for you, OP! Just for future reference. Taking lots of glucosamine and chondroitin will tighten up loose teeth in a jiffy.

Just so everyone knows:

Curved roots are often wrapped around the facial nerve, and such teeth should be extracted very carefully by an expert. OP is lucky he can still feel half his face.

True. Sister had wisdom tooth pulled 20+ years ago and one side of her lower lip has been numb ever since.

This girl that studied at the same studio, in Brooklyn, said her molar just fell out when she was eating one day.

She looked healthy, otherwise.

!!!!!