
Save yourself a damaged tooth and use a pair of scissors or nail clippers instead. They can be surprisingly strong and hard to break. But don’t underestimate the strength of that plastic. And sometimes seem relatively easy to remove. It just might save you an emergency trip to the dentist office. It’s worth the effort to look through your kitchen drawer for that nutcracker. It seems convenient to use your teeth to open a nutshell and hey if a squirrel can do it then why not right? Wrong! You are very likely to end up with a cracked or chipped tooth instead of a cracked shell. If you don’t have a bottle opener handy, you can also bang it open on a sturdy table edge. The sharp metal edge of a bottle cap could cut your gums or mouth and if the glass breaks you would have further injury. You might think you are impressing people because you know how to pop the metal top off of a glass bottle with your teeth, but you run the risk of chipping or cracking a tooth in the process. It’s certainly appealing to quickly rip into them with your teeth because you think it saves time, but the sharp plastic of shrink-wrap or tape can result in cuts, and if the material doesn’t tear easily, you can even dislocate your jaw out of place from the strain of trying to tear it. PackagesĪny sort of sealed package like a bag of chips, an object that is in shrink-wrap, or closed boxes with packing tape usually require a sharp edge of some sort to open. Opening the following items with your teeth may seem like a good idea but it is just not worth the risk of damaging those pearly whites.


Using our teeth to open a bag of chips is another. Something we shouldn’t use as tools are our teeth. Sometimes the tools we use are simply our two hands. Whether it is fixing a tire or opening a can of pickles.

Every day we use different tools to accomplish something.
