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Teen forced dentist to remove braces, at gunpoint

Mark Frauenfelder
Sep 11, 2020
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I knew an idiot in junior high school who so wanted to impress some girls that he removed his own braces with a pair of pliers. What a waste of his parent's money. A few years later, in 1985, another bright young mind was also desperate to get his braces off but thought better (or worse) of the DIY approach. From a Central New Jersey Home News article u…

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