my pateint refused to allow me to extract his badly affected upper tooth, he actually believed his upper teeth were screws that fixed his upper jaw to his skull
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I pushed down on my upper eyelids too much, my eyes would pop out.— I Still Don't Touch My Eyelids
- I used to think that the upper struture on the caboose was the rest room.Anon
- I used to think that the tooth fairy puts you in a deep sleep before stealing your tooth/teeth.Anon
- I used to believe that in the tooth fairy took all your teeth and built a tooth city for her to live in!Anon
- My mother told me that the tooth fairy would only come if I brushed my teeth.— Dale
- As a child I was taught that the tooth fairy would buy our teeth so she could add them to her crown.— Lola