Pulling a tooth with vise-grips and a hammer - GIF

[Frank S]

I have never had great teeth they are not smooth like most peoples are but have a surface texture more like 200 grit sand paper and more of a true ivory color than people who have those funny looking whiter than white bleached looking teeth. Consequentially due to some of my personal habits when I went into the Army in 71 the dentist thought that every little darkened stain was a severe cavity 95% of them were not cavities at all But they did the wire brush cleaning and grinding with their polishing pads anyway. Which did nothing but remove the higher grit textures reducing my teeth to about a 400 grit sand paper OK i was fine with that they were a ton easier to brush afterwards but then they decided to drill for oil in the still darkened spots yes there were a few of those holes that probably eventually should have been drilled but they came up with more dry holes than cavities and yet I wound up with a mouth full of amalgam which started the process of decay that may have other wise been averted for many more years. So in 73 I managed to break off a utility pole with my car also breaking 1 of my front teeth in the process
Back to another dentist it had been 2 years since I had sat in 1 of their chairs He ground the remaining portion of the tooth to a shape that he liked then made a cast of it and had a Stainless steel & porcelain crown made for it. I later found out that the crown cost the Army 3000.00 to have made Man those Army dentist think a lot of the GI's I thought. anyway to this day I still have that crown in my mouth it is probably the only tooth in my mouth that has never been touched again. fillings started falling out when I was 40 had them refilled a couple of gold crowns in the back then in my 50's the fillings started falling out again. but since so many of the teeth have pretty much had the nerves in the root killed I haven't bothered with visiting a dentist except for a couple of times in Kuwait where I just had the offending tooth extracted. While I was over there I should have had them pull all of them and embed a few studs or screws and make me a set of permanent choppers They have great dentist over there all trained in both Germany and in the best universities here in the states For less than 2 grand I could have had a set of teeth that would last longer than my front tooth has lasted. But NO I put it off