Jack the Potato said:
Just my wisdom teeth. I was fortunate to get them done before I went to boot camp, because they knocked me out completely and I was able to rest comfortably afterward. The guys in boot camp who have theirs pulled don't get knocked out (just numbed up, so they don't feel much, but still) and while they get rest time afterward, it's not nearly as much as I had. Now, the military way of doing it isn't cruel or unnecessarily painful, but like most military anythings, they try to spend as little money on it as possible (and that was before the budget cuts).
As for mine, that was the only time I've ever been rendered unconscious in my life, and it was pretty strange to experience. I don't recall ever being in that much pain afterward though; the worst part was just not being able to eat hard food for a while and the feeling of string in my gums.
I had all 4 taken out at my first duty assignment. The Air Force won't let you do on a TDY or combat deployment with them still intact. No pain or anything from them before that, they cut out 1 and had to break another. I was put out but woke up in the middle to see the dentist with a chisel and hammer. Same day I was eating red beans and rice and never had any issues at all, never took the pain meds after the 1st day. Had a root canal a few months ago, no biggie really.
Non dental- Broke all 4 fingers on my left hand in a wrestling match at school, had to have them pinned together. Broke the side of my face and right orbit as well as having my jaw wired shut from getting hit by a guy with brass knuckles. Had to have reconstructive surgery and they had to take out my right eye to remove bone chips behind it, they were able to put it back with just a little damage to my optic nerve and muscles. Broke 3 ribs at a concert, I was on the rail and the crowd basically pushed everyone forward and it fractured 3 ribs in a splintering fashion and not a clean break. One of them developed a bone spur that kept getting the flesh around it infected so they put a metal tube over it after they ground it down so that it wouldn't come back again. Shattered my left kneecap into too many pieces when I was 8 riding my bike. My front tire went into a pothole and the whole bike pivoted on it basically, knee hit the edge of the hole and pop that was it. So I have a cadaver kneecap there. Right leg was practically rebuilt from a Humvee accident in the Air Force. My foot was basically turned 180degrees and the ligaments, muscles and tendons either tore or hyper extended. Entire knee joint was replaced with a titanium knee replacement. My right foot kicks out about 15degrees to the right when I walk from not everything lining up but at least I can walk. Skin graft on my left shoulder from crashing on my bike and grinding all the skin and muscle off down to my clavicle. Burn on my left palm from touching a hot potbelly stove when I was a kid, had to have the skin abraded off and then a skin graft from my ass lol. Broke the little knobby bone off my left wrist and it was basically pushed back into place and taped up. Healed badly and started to damage my nerves in my hand so I had ti re broken and scoped out.
