Strangely enough, I was just reading that oil-pulling is an ancient Indian practice. And just before that, had been reading that one of the primary reasons Romani people (who are of Indian extraction, originally) were persecuted and chased out of many communities, was because they didn’t catch the plague. So, they were thought to be some kind of satanic worshippers, or something. However, they are extremely particular about cleanliness in general and personal hygiene in particular. So, there were actually doing everything right to avoid the plague, but nobody understood it at the time.
So, I’d guess that the tooth was not oil-pulled, because, plague.
