This is the ingenious way a creative dad helped pull out his son’s loose milk tooth.

Footage from Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, North China shows how Mr Wang used a toy bow and arrow to pluck his son’s loose baby tooth.

The gnasher was ready to come out, but the eight-year-old lad was reportedly too scared to pull it himself.

The clip shows how he winces in fear as his dad readies the bow and arrow, which is tied to his tooth with a long piece of string.

As his sister covers his eyes with her hand, their dad fires the arrow.

But the lad is left with an almost confused expression when his tooth is yanked out and he fails to feel any pain.

The clip delighted Chinese netizens, such as ‘I’m the bad boy’, who joked: “Dad: ‘Son, let’s pull out another one!'”

And ‘A life with you’ quipped about the price of dentists, writing: “Saved a hundred dollars!”