Dental Torture in Media
- In 2012, Dentist Dr. Alvin Coon gave 4 year old unecessary double root canal without anesthesia at school without parents' permission. Dentist's services were coordinated at school by Reachout Healthcare America through mobile dentistry organization under the name of, Big Smiles.
- Actor Steve Martin plays sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello in the 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors.
- In the film Oldboy, the protagonist tortures someone by removing his teeth with a claw hammer.
- In the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode "Not Equal", the Major threatens a terrorist with dental torture by combat knife.
- The horror film The Dentist involved a dentist inflicting dental torture on his patients.
- In the 1976 film Marathon Man, Sir Laurence Olivier's character Christian Szell, an ex-Nazi, uses dental torture on Dustin Hoffman's character Babe while attempting to discover if Babe knows if Szell will be robbed when he retrieves diamonds that are stashed in a Manhattan safe deposit box. The movie's dental torture scene made Szell's repeated phrase, "Is it safe?" a quotable movie quote from the 70s (see AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes).
- In the 2009 film The Human Centipede (First Sequence), Dr. Heiter removes both the upper and lower incisors of the central and terminal patients forming the Human Centipede.
- In one episode on the show Alias, the main character Sydney Bristow is captured and tortured. Her molar was almost removed.
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