Dental torture
Dental torture is a form of torture involving the infliction of pain or damage to the mouth.
Dental Torture techniques typically include disembodying or damaging of any part of the mouth (i.e. gums, tongue, teeth, etc.) without anesthesia, and may involve the misuse of dental equipment. This could include using needles or other sharp and/or otherwise painful apparatus to intentionally damage the victim.
Dental torture tends to be greatly feared due to the intense pain it is capable of inflicting, as well as the non-regenerative nature of mature teeth. Damage resulting from dental torture can also make eating and drinking excruciatingly painful or difficult. Dental torture techniques can be numerous, depending on the creativity of the torturer. Inclusion of non-dental materials, such as nails, is sometimes used to increase the pain inflicted.
Dental torture is usually considered a crime, punishable by most if not all law enforcement agencies. Penalties for dental torture may range from fines, to jail time, or even execution[citation needed] depending on location and the severity of the torture.
Dental torture in media[edit]
- 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 films The Dentist and The Dentist 2 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.
- In part two of Schism, the 10th episode of season 10 of Silent Witness, a girl is interrogated and tortured by having a screwdriver driving into her molars.
- In the 2010 film Unthinkable, the antagonist Yusef, is tortured by H having his teeth drilled into with no anesthesia. H does this to try and uncover the locations of the three nuclear bombs that have been planted by Yusef in 3 American cities.
- In NCIS Los Angeles Deeks(Eric Christian Olsen) was tortured by drilling in his mouth.
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