Concern of Causing Harm in Tooth Extraction
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Question
A person has a problem with a tooth and has two options to solve it: either treatment costing five thousand shekels or extracting the tooth to save money. Is there a difference in terms of causing harm?
Answer
There is no concern of causing harm in this case, as the prohibition of causing harm applies only in the context of aggression, and here it is for medical purposes. However, the Gemara in Pesachim 113 explains that there is a matter of not extracting teeth.
Source
Rambam, Chapter 5 of Wounding and Damaging, Pesachim 113
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