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Apologies if this has been shared here before, but my ham-fisted search skills didn’t turn anything up. Further apologies if this should be in the outdoor forum, but given the brand, I thought it would interest not a few.
I’ve been reading Len McDougall’s ‘The Log Cabin’, and came across an interesting passage. Len has split a molar, and when wrenching the two tooth splinters out with pliers, he leaves the roots in situ by default. Having already drained one abscess by painful means, prior to the extraction attempt, he opts to remove the root by himself:
“With some trepidation of the unknown, I honed my Spyderco [Native] folding knife to shaving sharpness and prepared to perform oral surgery on myself. I laid the tip against the outer gum, directly over where the dead root lay trapped, and pushed the cutting edge inward through the soft tissue until it stopped against the harder root. I could only imagine what was happening as I operated by feel alone, but I felt the gum separate from around the embedded root. I used the knife to pry tissue away from tooth until the root lay exposed.
Then I went to work with the big linesman’s pliers [...]”
Yikes.
I’ve been reading Len McDougall’s ‘The Log Cabin’, and came across an interesting passage. Len has split a molar, and when wrenching the two tooth splinters out with pliers, he leaves the roots in situ by default. Having already drained one abscess by painful means, prior to the extraction attempt, he opts to remove the root by himself:
“With some trepidation of the unknown, I honed my Spyderco [Native] folding knife to shaving sharpness and prepared to perform oral surgery on myself. I laid the tip against the outer gum, directly over where the dead root lay trapped, and pushed the cutting edge inward through the soft tissue until it stopped against the harder root. I could only imagine what was happening as I operated by feel alone, but I felt the gum separate from around the embedded root. I used the knife to pry tissue away from tooth until the root lay exposed.
Then I went to work with the big linesman’s pliers [...]”
Yikes.
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