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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 395, 3 December 1912, Page 2

It is said that professional tooth pullers in Japan formerly trained their fingers and vvists for the work by driving hardwood pegs intr. a soft wood b?ard and pulling them out again until they could extract jege almost flush with the surface of the board, continuing the training v ith a hardwood board. These men often became singularly expert in extracting teeth quickly, and with very little injury to the socket and processes.