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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5400135" data-attributes="member: 6957">This one I'll grant - silver dental pliers are few and far between.That said - removal would come under either 'Heal' or 'Profession [Barber]' (the medical Jack of All Trades for much of history) skills. Probably pretty danged high DC. Breaking the jaw wasn't all that uncommon during the practice of mediaeval dentistry. Given the size and crude design of the pliers used, this is no great surprise. (As an aside - I once visited a Colonial Gaol that had allowed a prioner to continue practicing as a barber/leach/dentist... until he pulled the bars out of his cell and escaped, using the dental pliers.... Near Kittery, Maine, that gaol is.)As already mentioned, the use of the teeth as material components or as part of a Blade of Lycanthropy or the like makes more sense (to me at least) than accidental infection.And the torturous removal of the teeth from the critter is hardly good - unless removal of the teeth is somehow part of curing the werewolf through non-lethal means. (Sorry you don't have any teeth now Bob, but at least you're no longer chasing cars....)The Auld Grump</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 5400135, member: 6957"] This one I'll grant - silver dental pliers are few and far between. That said - removal would come under either 'Heal' or 'Profession [Barber]' (the medical Jack of All Trades for much of history) skills. Probably pretty danged high DC. Breaking the jaw wasn't all that uncommon during the practice of mediaeval dentistry. Given the size and crude design of the pliers used, this is no great surprise. (As an aside - I once visited a Colonial Gaol that had allowed a prioner to continue practicing as a barber/leach/dentist... until he pulled the bars out of his cell and escaped, using the dental pliers.... Near Kittery, Maine, that gaol is.) As already mentioned, the use of the teeth as material components or as part of a Blade of Lycanthropy or the like makes more sense (to me at least) than accidental infection. And the torturous removal of the teeth from the critter is hardly good - unless removal of the teeth is somehow part of curing the werewolf through non-lethal means. (Sorry you don't have any teeth now Bob, but at least you're no longer chasing cars....) The Auld Grump [/QUOTE]

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