A Tinley Park, Ill., dentist may have performed a dental first
recently when he filed down the incisors of a golden puffer.

That's a fish.

Dr. Edmund Hanley got a call from J.R.'s Aquatics,
a pet shop where the puffer's caretakers weren't having any luck
dealing with the fish's big teeth on their own.

They were
concerned the prized specimen would starve to death because the
teeth were so overgrown the fish couldn't eat.

June Cech, who
runs the shop with her son, told a local newspaper that puffers
usually trim their own teeth by gnawing on coral and rocks, but
this fish wasn't doing it that way.

Dr. Hanley took the nine-inch
fish out of water for 30 seconds at a time, using a diamond-edged
drill to cut the incisors down from 3/4 inch to 1/4 inch.

Following a brief convalescence in the water, the fish had its
first meal in months - some unshelled shrimp.