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* In ''{{District 9}}'', Wikus loses two molars [[spoiler: about 40 hours after being exposed to the alien fluid that turns him into a prawn.]] One he loses when chewing food, the other he pulls out himself.
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* In ''{{Moon}}'', Sam starts losing his teeth (and vomiting blood) [[spoiler:as his short-lived clone body breaks down]].

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* In ''{{Moon}}'', ''Film/{{Moon}}'', Sam starts losing his teeth (and vomiting blood) [[spoiler:as his short-lived clone body breaks down]].

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** A number of Stooge shorts involve teeth being pulled or smashed out, often painfully. It's often the wrong tooth that is yanked, or even the wrong person getting yanked.



* [[SanfordAndSon Fred Sanford]] once went [[IncrediblyLamePun to great pains]] to avoid the dentist when troubled with a bad tooth, even specifically [[ReverseRacism requesting a black dentist]] to treat it.
* [[MarriedWithChildren Al Bundy]]'s teeth are so disgusting and yellowed even a dentist is appalled at the look of them.




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* Many MGM and Warner Bros. cartoons show a hungry predator unwittingly biting down on something hard they think is food or prey and smashing out all their teeth.
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*In MarathonMan, Szell drills into one of Levy's teeth every time he gets an answer he doesn't like.
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* In ''{{SabrinaTheTeenageWitch}}'', the title character was confronted with a security guard while going to a rock-concert with a few of her friends, when the guard couldn't let them in, Sabrina casts a spell which causes his teeth to fall out, the guard notices it and runs off, he is never mentioned again, which also makes him a VictimizedBystander.

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** In an early draft of ''Saw III'', some of the chains holding Troy in place for his trap were hooked through his teeth, requiring him to pull them out if he wanted to free himself. One of the movie's posters displayed three uprooted teeth dangling from wires as the Roman number III.
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* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', Andrew, slowing slipping into despair induced madness, uses his telekinetic powers to yank three teeth out of a bully's mouth.

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* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', Andrew, slowing slipping into despair induced despair-induced madness, uses his [[MindOverMatter telekinetic powers powers]] to yank three teeth out of a bully's mouth.
mouth. For added horror, he later shows off the teeth to his camera, absent-mindedly noting that he was able to get the first one out cleanly, but ended up actually ''breaking'' the other two.
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* In ''TenneseeTuxedoAndHisTales'', [[TheDitz Chumley]] got rather destructive in his pain-induced rage. Yet even after encouragement from the ever-informative Mr. Whoopie, he was hardly willing to see a dentist.

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* In ''TenneseeTuxedoAndHisTales'', ''TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales'', [[TheDitz Chumley]] got rather destructive in his pain-induced rage. Yet even after encouragement from the ever-informative Mr. Whoopie, he was hardly willing to see a dentist.

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* In ''TenneseeTuxedoAndHisTales'', [[TheDitz Chumley]] got rather destructive in his pain-induced rage. Yet even after encouragement from the ever-informative Mr. Whoopie, he was hardly willing to see a dentist.
* In ''MuppetBabies'', Fozzie's tooth pain got him sent to the dentist. The rest of the gang shared his fear and felt for him.
* OlderThanTelevision example: [[BoskoTheTalkInkKid Bosko's]] dog Bruno ate too many brownies. The visual metaphor didn't help matters.
* An extra gruesome episode of ''TheRenAndStimpyShow'' [[GrossUpCloseUp showed]] why it pays to brush teeth.
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* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}, Andrew, slowing slipping into despair induced madness, uses his telekinetic powers to yank three teeth out of a bully's mouth.

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* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}, ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', Andrew, slowing slipping into despair induced madness, uses his telekinetic powers to yank three teeth out of a bully's mouth.
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* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}, a character uses his telekinetic powers to yank three teeth out of a bully's mouth.

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* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}, a character Andrew, slowing slipping into despair induced madness, uses his telekinetic powers to yank three teeth out of a bully's mouth.

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* In ''{{Chuck}}'', as part of a IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten proof of Chuck being a [[ColdBloodedTorture cold-blooded torturer]], he is forced to torture Casey. He extracts a tooth to extract information. [[spoiler:As it turns out, Casey needed that tooth pulled anyway and thanked Chuck for saving him a trip to the dentist.]]
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* StanislawLem's short story "Highest Possible Level of Development" in ''TheCyberiad'' had a drug, Altruzine, that caused tele-empathy. A man with a toothache has the painful tooth ripped out by nearby people who don't want to feel his pain.

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* StanislawLem's short story "Highest Possible Level of Development" in ''TheCyberiad'' ''Literature/TheCyberiad'' had a drug, Altruzine, that caused tele-empathy. A man with a toothache has the painful tooth ripped out by nearby people who don't want to feel his pain.
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* The subject of "The Interfaith Dental Clinic" story Townes van Zandt tells on the album ''Together at the Bluebird Cafe''.
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* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom trips over a root and chips a tooth. Fortunately, Zecora has the skill to prepare a dentistry potion.

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* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom trips over a root and chips a tooth. Fortunately, Zecora has the skill to prepare a dentistry potion.
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* In ''NineteenEightyFour'', O'Brien rips out one of Winston's teeth with his hand, to show him that he's "rotting away" and "falling to pieces".
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* In ''The Tommyknockers'', one of the signs that someone is being affected by the ship's radiation is that they start losing teeth. The protagonist, in trying to gain the trust of his affected girlfriend, wrenches a tooth out of its socket with a pair of pliers to "prove" he is being affected too.

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* In ''The Tommyknockers'', one of the signs that someone is being affected by the ship's radiation is that they start losing teeth. The protagonist, in trying to gain the trust of his affected girlfriend, wrenches a tooth out of its socket with a pair of pliers to "prove" he is being affected too.
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** Not to mention bleeding and possible inability to eat solid food till the soreness goes away.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftdYpFC5Go0&feature=player_embedded The Cliche Family]] (a parody ad made as an in-house demonstration) shows a little boy brushing his teeth all day, day after day, until they're almost completely worn away.
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* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Malleus Maleficarum", a witch uses magic to make a woman's teeth fall out. An episode earlier, Dean narrowly escaped having a tooth pulled out as part of a pagan ritual.

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* Considerably less severe than the other cases presented, but braces can leave one with the entire mouth feeling sore until the teeth get used to the unrelenting tension.

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* Considerably less severe than the other cases presented, but newly-applied braces can leave one with the entire mouth feeling sore until the teeth get used to the unrelenting tension.tension.
* Sudden heat or cold can be painful, especially if your teeth are more sensitive.
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* Considerably less severe than the other cases presented, but braces can leave one with the entire mouth feeling sore until the teeth get used to the unrelenting tension.
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*** This is the main reason many people opt to be put under during the actual surgery. However, even afterwards there is pain in the area (usually, pain pills are prescribed), sometimes accompanied by bruised cheeks, sores around the corners of the mouth, or a particularly nasty condition called dry-socket.

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* Tooth cavities, or worse, tooth ''abscesses''.

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* Tooth cavities, or worse, tooth ''abscesses''.''abscesses''.
* Chipping a tooth, if you lose enough it'll expose the nerve causing all kinds of pain.
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* And it only gets worse in the history books!
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* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "The Cutie Pox", Apple Bloom trips over a root and chips a tooth. Fortunately, Zecora has the skill to prepare a dentistry potion.
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* The LaurelAndHardy silent ''Leave 'Em Laughing'' involves Stanley getting a toothache.
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* One of the methods of the [[FanNickname Sadistic Dentist of Asian Persuasion]] from ''{{Alias}}''.

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* One of the methods of the [[FanNickname Sadistic Dentist of Asian Persuasion]] from ''{{Alias}}''.''Series/{{Alias}}''.

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