Tooth Extraction

There are few dental procedures that sit as deep as the pulling of a tooth. Not only physically — but symbolically. The tooth is detached from its socket, from the structure that has carried it for years. What was firm is removed. What had grown is let go. What was part of you is no longer part of you afterward.

The dental perspective is clear: a tooth is pulled when it can no longer be saved — through decay, inflammation, fracture, or because it is causing problems that cannot be resolved otherwise. It is a necessary procedure, sometimes an urgent one. But the psychosomatic perspective asks deeper: what does it mean when your body creates a state in which a part of you must be removed? What wants to be released — not only in the jaw, but in your life?

Tooth extraction is not an accident — it is an invitation to transformation.