Have you ever had a tooth knocked out? Filler, filler?

[Anonymous]

Have you ever had a tooth knocked out? How did it happen? Did you get it fixed?

[jesseray]

When I was 16, I broke my top two front teeth in half.

I was going somewhere with a friend and we decided that I would stand on the back pegs of his bicycle and he would peddle. About half-way to our destination in the middle of a busy intersection, just out of nowhere, I lost consciousness, slipped off the back pegs, and fell forward onto the street, smashing my teeth against the pavement, and then went into an epileptic seizure.

I woke up to strangers surrounding me, which shocked me, so I tried to sit up, but they told me not to get up and that an ambulance was on its way. I thought, "Ambulance? Why do I need an ambulance? What just happened?" I looked around and I remembered what happened, saw that the strangers pulled me off the busy street, and then my mouth started to hurt. I brought my hand to my mouth and felt the jagged edges of where my teeth used to be, pulled my hand away, and saw the blood. I thought, "Shit! Well, I guess I should just lie down and wait." The ambulance came and took me to the hospital. They gave me a look over and found that my teeth were the only things seriously damaged, gave me food and water, and let my parents take me home.

A few weeks later, my parents took me to the dentist. He filed my two front teeth down into cone shapes (like miniature vampire fangs) and then installed dental crowns (i.e., tooth caps).

[yaddayaddayadda02]

I never have, but my daughter did when she was younger...it was fairly traumatic.

[PLLFan21]

Yes. When I was 5, my little sister who was 4 "knocked" me out , and so did my tooth :)

[douride2]

Never had one knocked out I did break a few off if that counts?

[Anonymous]

Once when I was 9 I was throwing a basketball, it bounced back at me faster than I was prepared for. Hit me in the mouth and knocked out one of my top baby teeth. I had lost a different tooth earlier that day. The Tooth Fairy paid up that night :D
Second time was when I was 23. I got drunk and a little too mouthy with apparently the wrong person. Long story short, he punched me and knocked my top front teeth, not out, but down my throat. It didn't really hurt as much as I thought it would have. It was more embarrassing than anything.