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  2. Infant oral mutilation - Wikipedia

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    Typically, a parent may take a sick child to a traditional healer, who will look in the child's mouth and attribute the illness to "tooth worms".The healer will point out the small, white, developing tooth buds as being "tooth worms", and then dig the "worms" out of the gums without local anesthesia and using a non-sterile tool (normally a bicycle spoke). [2]

  3. Hall Technique - Wikipedia

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    The child should be shown the crown. Some children respond better to the idea of the crown being a "Terminator tooth", "Iron Man tooth", shiny helmet tooth or a princess tiara tooth. [31] It is important that the child knows that during the procedure they may be required to bite down to help seat the crown correctly.

  4. Dental extraction - Wikipedia

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    Dental extraction forceps commonly used on teeth in the maxillary arch. Extractions are often categorized as "simple" or "surgical". Simple extractions are performed on teeth that are visible in the mouth, usually with the patient under local anaesthetic, and require only the use of instruments to elevate and/or grasp the visible portion of the ...

  5. Watch this drone pull out a little girl's tooth - AOL

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    Well, that's one way to pull out your child's tooth...

  6. Pediatric dentistry - Wikipedia

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    School dentist examining children's teeth. Netherlands, 1935. A child getting a filling at the dentist. Malmö National Dental Service 1989.. Pediatric dentistry (formerly pedodontics in American English or paedodontics in Commonwealth English) is the branch of dentistry dealing with children from birth through adolescence. [1]

  7. Dental key - Wikipedia

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    llustration demonstrating the use of the dental key for extracting teeth. The dental key is an instrument that was used in dentistry to extract diseased teeth.Before the era of antibiotics, dental extraction was often the method of choice to treat dental infections, and extraction instruments date back several centuries.

  8. Serial extraction - Wikipedia

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    Judicious reproximation disking of primary teeth with no tooth extraction is an occasional option. This decision depends on the careful tooth size-arch length evaluation. The amount of crowding, the arch length requirements, whether they are symmetric, and the state of health of the investing tissues are factors that continually impact the ...

  9. Tooth ablation - Wikipedia

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    A BaTonga woman with extracted front teeth, for beauty purposes.. Tooth ablation (also known as tooth evulsion, dental evulsion and tooth extraction) is the deliberate removal of a person's healthy teeth, and has been recorded in a variety of ancient and modern societies around the world.