Speaking as somewhat of an expert on pain (y'all know why) - oral/tooth pain is the worst.
Period. Hate it and have full sympathy for anyone else suffering from it!
Part of having an extremely dense bone structure, no doubt aided by my drinking nothing
but gallons of whole milk as a kid probably, I've only lost two teeth on my own in my adult life and
ironically, they were actually "baby" teeth that never had adult replacements under them!
(Insert your TN inbred jokes here)
I got over 50 years out of those rascals before one finally busted a corner off, so they took
its' twin too - gives me sort of a vampire look on the bottom row.
Ok....a
geriatric vampire maybe, but still...
*ROWL GRR!* *cough*
Or something...
Now, losses by
others, that's a different story:
I still have three of the four wisdom teeth, even though there's no room for 'em - because
the dentist that started the process of removing them years ago wound up climbing on my
chest to hold me down, the tooth fought him so hard...
in the process, he destroyed the roots under the tooth next to it as well and I wound up
losing that one, too - so, no more wisdom teeth will be pulled. Ever.
Then there was the time the cop in Alexandria brake checked me and I ate the hard plastic
steering wheel....still got a cap on one of my Bug Bunny teeth from that one.
Knocked a dang chunk out of the wheel, though.