Does the string-and-slammed-door tooth extraction method work?

One way of doing it … an 1810 illustration of a dentist at work. Image: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

In the comics of my childhood, tooth extraction was effected by the string-and-slammed-door method. Anyone every tried this? Did it work?

Andy Mayer

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