…Dreaming of losing teeth indicates that humiliations and attacks to the dreamer’s pride and vanity are anticipated, and will lead to defeats and sadness due to fear of hunger, misery, and sadness. Dreaming of people’s healthy and beautiful teeth indicates good friendships. Dreaming of admiring your own teeth due to them being really white is a sign of vanity, but also of satisfaction because your dreams are about to be accomplished. Dreaming of dirty teeth that are not the dreamer’s, insinuates that the dreamer will have issues with other people and perhaps some illnesses. Dreaming of your own teeth being dirty, with cavities or being broken, indicates that your business or interests are not going well and requires all of your attention. This hints illnesses. Dreaming of brushing your teeth hints that you should make a maximum effort to recover lost time and values for your lack of dedication….

…held a huge pair of forceps, and in the other the needle of the whirling instrument used for boring holes in teeth prior to filling them. ‘I am Paul’ he said, ‘ and it is my unpleasant task to attend to your mouth every day. I shall first of all extract your teeth, then replace them, and, lastly, fill them. It will hurt you frightfully, but you must be patient; and I shall keep on at it till you cease swearing and begin of your own accord to repeatThe Old Hundredth, when your punishment will cease, and you will find yourself on the high road to Heaven. Now!’ And here I could stop him, he thinks the forceps into my mouth and began pulling. Pain! The pain was unendurable, inconceivable! All my previous sufferings were as nothing to it. And with the extraction of each tooth it increased. At last…