Originally Posted by
Hydromet
My former dentist, when he was called up for national service, spent most of his time designing the base golf course.
Somewhere, there was probably an engineer or some such, who was pulling teeth for something to do.
When I was 20 my dentist did an "emergency" extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth which proved very reluctant to leave my jaw. He disappeared for a few minutes and came back with what looked like a pair of well-used mole grips. I think he'd been rummaging for them in his car's toolbox... Probably an ex RNZAF Engineering Officer then. Mole grips did the trick but I had the rest done later under general anaesthetic...