Old guy: “In my day, we didn’t pull out a loose tooth by tying it to a door, because we didn’t have doors!
We had to find a wild boar to pull out a tooth!”
Old guy: “In my day, we didn’t pull out a loose tooth by tying it to a door, because we didn’t have doors!
We had to find a wild boar to pull out a tooth!”
Neanderthals removed a bad tooth by tying it to a dinosaur’s tail. The tooth would always be successfully pulled out, but there was also a risk of the dinosaur eating the patient.
This is why to this day, people are instinctively afraid of dentists.
Another Fun Fact from Mr. Science.

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