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Home jobs set dentists’ teeth on edge

WITH her phone set to record in one hand and a hot pink nail file in the other, Mia Dio was ready to act on the “crazy idea” that popped into her head just hours earlier.

“I’m going to file my teeth down with a nail file because they are not perfect,” Dio, 19, said in a video shared to TikTok in early June.

“I have some ridges, and we’re ballin’ on a budget.”

Over the next 20 or so seconds, the Miami native chronicled portions of her foray into at-home dentistry, briefly showing footage of herself appearing to lightly drag a nail file back and forth across

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