Disaster Dentists warn about disturbing TikTok trend: teens filing down their teeth with a nail file

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INDIANAPOLIS — On TikTok, just search "teeth filing" and in seconds, video after video shows the cringeworthy results.

It’s the latest trend on social media: young people, unhappy with the way their teeth look, are taking a nail file to fix their smile themselves.

"It's scary," said Dr. LaQuia Vinson, an Associate Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at Indiana University Health. "Because you’re doing irreversible damage to your teeth."

IU Health reached out to 13News to get the word out to parents.

"The first thing I thought about (after seeing the posts) was that they're using a file! That's not a clean object," Vinson said.

It can also be painful.

"You can go from mild sensitivity to major pain in a very a short amount of time. Especially depending on how deep they’re starting to file," she said.


Dentists say filing down your teeth on your own removes the enamel, which helps protect our teeth from damage.

"Let me just tell you, if you don't have a strong background in the principles of occlusion and hydrodynamic theory, you shouldn't be doing this," said Dr. Kishen Godhia, a dentist in California, who made his own video on TikTok to try and reach young people through social media.

Dr. Vinson hopes they listen.

"If someone's unhappy with their smile, there's lots of very safe things and ways we can do to change that," she said. "Using a file at home in your bedroom or in the bathroom is not the way to go."

 

[Lemmingwise]

Learn to archive, nigger.

Link doesn't work.

 

[Dutch Courage]

Dumbest generation ever by far. Come back Millennials, all is forgiven. I say we let them file their teeth as much as they want.

 

[Μusk]

The disturbing aspect of this story isn't that this is a "TikTok trend", but rather the fact that common sense had fallen so greatly that people would even consider doing something like this.

 

[Sneed's Feed And Seed]

Had an Islander kid (Super-tan Asian kid) in class at the local TKD school back at the turn of the millennium that had teeth like that. He's gotta be like 30 now. I still have no idea why he did it, other than possible getting back to one's Islander roots?

I just can't believe dumb kids are STILL doing this shit 2 decades on. Then again, Stussy "S"...

 

[SeniorFuckFace]

China Official: Make American's do crazy shit, test envelope of influence!
Engineer: What?
China Official: Make American's do crazy SHIT! Make them file their teeth, make them!!!
Engineer: File their teeth???
China Official: NOW!

(True story)

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Dumbest generation ever by far.

Which is ironic since everyone was putting zoomers on a pedestal saying they would be the ones to save humanity.

Now imagine the kind of kids zoomers would produce. If you think kids of Gen-X and Millenials are dumb, you aint seen nothing yet. Standards in school will be so fucking low that kids in Arkansas and Alabama will be in honor rolls.

 

[Positron]

TikTok is the eugenicist's best friend.

 

[Lemmingwise]

The disturbing aspect of this story isn't that this is a "TikTok trend", but rather the fact that common sense had fallen so greatly that people would even consider doing something like this.

Better than the 1950s of uranium dirt sitting fad, where they hoped the radiation would cure their diseases.

There's also the amazing William George Crush, who convinced railway owners to stage a train crash to get more people to take the train.

The two trains crashed into each others, their boilers exploded, a couple of people died and a number were injured.

They promptly fired the aptly named Crush for his stupid idea.

But people ended up talking about that event for a long time and that caused more people to try out the train. The idea worked.

 

[BooneHelm]

Filing down something yourself that holds an incredibly sensitive nerve ending inside, what could possibly go wrong?

Seriously anyone who has dealt with any kind of tooth pain will tell you this is a dumb fucking idea. Also dental work can get really expensive, really fast.

 

[heathercho]

"If someone's unhappy with their smile, there's lots of very safe things and ways we can do to change that," she said. "Using a file at home in your bedroom or in the bathroom is not the way to go."

Lol... you fucking gypsy. Stop charging so much money for it and maybe people will.
Let the peasants file their teeth.

 

[DragoonSierra]

I miss planking

 

[Lemmingwise]

This story has given me more phantom toothache than that scene from american history x.

 

[Creep3r]

Idiocracy here we come!

 

[The handsome tard]

I miss tide pods...

At least it was the type idiocy that got you properly killed off the gene pool.

 

[MemeGrey]

I fucking love TikTok so much, Its like a gold mine but instead of gold its retards

 

[mr.moon1488]

Imagine craving attention so badly that you would use a disfiguring torture technique on yourself just to get a few people you don't know to look at you.

 

[ChikN10der]

Ow ow ow ouch oh my God my teeth hurt.

I'd have thought basic pain avoidance would have done the trick here...

 

[Zero Day Defense]

Which is ironic since everyone was putting zoomers on a pedestal saying they would be the ones to save humanity.

I don't know why anyone would think this, ever, except that they're at least two generations removed.

 

[WonderWino]

At this rate I fully expect the castrate yourself challenge to be a tiktok fad within a year. I mean would anyone really be surprised?