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People used to do it in the past, I remember reading about a groom who paid for his wife to have all her teeth removed as a wedding present.

I recall a crackpot that pulled every last one of his own teeth and replaced them one at a time with polished rocks from his own gravel driveway.

I think it was a video segment on The Daily Show, with Beth Littleford as the correspondent. So that would have been quite a long time ago, somewhere from 1996 to 2000.

Having wisdom teeth pulled is a whole different story. Years after I had those out, I had two premolars removed under local anesthesia. A couple of hard pulls and it was over, and they never even hurt after the novocaine wore off. (Well they hurt if I poked the bare spot, but otherwise they were just fine.)

I had 13 teeth taken out total when my wisdoms got taken out.