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WATCH: Dramatic video shows uncle pulling nephew’s tooth out with drone

Kids make good daredevils.

So when Paul Borrud offered to pull his nephew Bruno’s tooth out with a drone, Bruno was game.

The family gathered in San Francisco’s Ghirardelli Square in early July. Borrud, a tech exec-turned-philanthropist used floss to tie his nephew’s loose tooth to the drone, named Phyllis.

He then flew Phyllis up and away, pulling Bruno’s loose (now lost) tooth behind her. The dramatic video has racked up over 22,000 views online since it was posted in July.

But the video’s title, “The World’s First Ever Drone Tooth Pull,” is misleading: This is not the first drone-extracted tooth to be caught on camera.

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Last year, an Irish father and son pulled off a similar feat with a quadcopter. There are several other examples littering YouTube.

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The creativity that goes into tooth pulling doesn’t seem to end there.

Several other methods, including a javelin, Camaro, rocket, Nerf gun and a bow and arrow have also proven to be successful ways to extract baby teeth.

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