Imagine having such a terrible toothache and no access to a dentist that you take a pair of pliers and pull your own tooth. Meet Chester Moody. It’s 1958 in the Jim Crow South: Lorman, Mississippi, to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who ...

Seven years to visit the dentist was simply too long to wait for Linda Colla, who was forced to pull out her own teeth due to the pain. Colla, 75, began experiencing problems with gum disease and her ...

Pulling baby teeth is a rite of passage. For generations, moms and dads have tied a string or floss to a child's loose tooth and either yanked it out by hand or, in some cases, tied the string to a ...

People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who experience a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain should be able to ...