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In hindsight it’s good superman never needed surgery as a kid.
When he did need a fake tooth extraction he used his heat vision to puncture the sedation gas tube to drug the dentist
That seems incredibly unsafe, is Supes qualified to administer the gas?
Worst part is that he only wanted it to fake medical procedures as reinforcement for his Clark Kent persona. This was when he was in school (iirc, i read the comic from my fathers collection as a child) so couldnt possibly have gotten any qualifications for sedation yet
Edit: I think it was golden age supes, iirc he also faked bad eyesight and a broken arm in the same comic. Anyone else knows which story Im recalling? Which one was it? He was planning to send a robot for any later dentistry appointments which lacked the tooth