Lost invention

By the beginning of 1953, the cold war had created a bit of a tense atmosphere in the Eastern part of Germany, a country now wounded and divided for no reasonable reason.

It is during that year, that Dr Einzweidrei came up with a contraption that would revolutionize dentistry in his country. Under the cold glove of repression, very few people dared opening their mouth, which proved a daily challenged for the country's dentists. It is Dr Einzweidrei genius that allowed the dentists to maintain the oral hygiene of the country under control during those trouble times. His contraption allowed to remove people teeth without opening their mouth.

I will leave to your vivid imagination the task of picturing how the contraption might have worked, but it was abandoned immediately after the end of the cold war. The procedure was reported as being painful, although necessary.

There are few reports of pocketed communities who keep using it (the biggest one I believe is in San Francisco), without pulling any teeth. They described it as not necessary but delightful.