Is it safe?

In the movie Cast Away, Tom Hanks is a Fedex employee who survives a plane crash and finds himself stranded alone on a deserted island.  After years he has learned how to survive and “make fire”.  At one point during this nail biter, he develops an abscessed tooth.  The pain becomes so unbearable that he resorts to using the blade from a found ice skate to knock the infected tooth out of his mouth.  It still makes me queasy just imagining that scene. 

Jeffrey Vogl, DVM

October 4, 2012