#extracting teeth

To Pull or Not to Pull the Tooth

What to Do When Your Child Has a “Dangler”

How should you deal with your child’s first loose baby tooth? The slapstick comedy instructions for pulling a tooth involve a door and some string and go something like this:

How Not to Pull a Tooth

Tie a string to the loose tooth.

Tie the string to a door handle.

Slam the door.

Hear the child scream.

Watch the child’s gums bleed.

This is notthe way to…