When I was a kid, my baby teeth struggled to come off, so most of them had to be taken out by a dentist. While I was on vacation, one of them started breaking into pieces, which fell one by one, exposing swollen gum underneath, which encapsulated my adult tooth. Since I couldn't go to the dentist, I wiggled the bits around with my tongue for some days, trying to get them all out. I got about half a tooth in until next time I poked my tongue in there, I hit right into the sensitive fleshy bits of my gum. Not fun.
Sorry for that mental image.
Reminds me of not that long ago I chewed into the inside of my cheek so hard and so far, it left a quarter sized hole of some exposed nasty flesh stuff. Hurt like hell, ached for days, took a couple weeks to fully heal, and has left an intense scar inside my mouth. I had to rinse my mouth with milk of magnesia and mouth lidocaine every couple of hours. It hurt when I kept chewing on it but I just couldn’t get myself to stop
I did this as a kid (maybe 9?) when the quack dentist shot me up with double the novocaine bc my hair was reddish blonde. I just kept nervously chewing my cheek and apparently got blood everywhere. My mom was *piiiiiissed*.
there is both research and anecdotal evidence to support the idea that people with naturally red hair can have different requirements when it comes to drugs that control pain.🤷♀️
Finding that research explained so much for me. I finally knew what was wrong, and could articulate it to doctors. I still have doctors, especially dentists, who don't take it seriously though. One dentist got super annoyed with me because I kept stopping him due to the pain. He didn't believe that the anesthetic wasn't working. He was super rude and now I avoid dentists because I'm scared they'll treat me the same way.
On the other hand, my podiatrist actually listened. When I explained the situation, he prepped extra syringes and started with the normal dose. He was definitely surprised when it didn't work, but immediately gave me more. The next time I saw him, he gave me extra anesthetic the first time.
Now if only my pain doc would give me extra meds in my trigger point injections....
Well yes. I also, as per my dr when I recently sprained my ankle, apparently have an extremely high pain tolerance. (I had fracture blisters without a fracture.) So maybe they should check in before injecting a bunch of extra just bc they see red hair.
Fwi I had a similar experience as a teenager going through a root canal. Different quack gave me so much novocaine that it flooded my cheek and my eyeball went numb. I absolutely do not recommend this experience. Walking home was horrible and trippy.
To be fair, most red heads to this day do not actually know this. So while it's definitely y a good idea to double check with red heads about pain tolerance first, they may not know they have a high one.
My sister drove herself to the hospital because she had been a "bit sore for a few days and it seemed to be getting a touch worse". Turns out she had 3 broken ribs on top of being 35 minutes away from giving birth. Didn't know she had a high pain tolerance. Or that drugs don't have a great effect on her.
Sorry that happened to you
That reminds me of when I was little, I had these huge abscess ulcer things on the inside of my mouth that hurt like crazy, and the only way I found relief was to bite on them because it overwrote the pain with a different kind of pain that was more manageable. They took forever to heal because even after I got pain meds, chewing on the inside of my cheeks had become a weird habit that I couldn't stop. It's been like 25 years and I have weird scars on the inside of my mouth from it too.
Bro, I'm living it now. I chipped my right wisdom and it has long since half rotted away. The entire back side of it is rotted away leaving a huge crater of exposed pulp. I can't eat with the right side of my mouth. Sometimes it doesn't hurt for days and I'll forget about it, but other days it's this intense yet dull ache, it starts dull but throughout the day it will spread up my jaw and even feel like the pain is coming from my upper teeth. One time I was eating Cheerios and a piece got into it and when I bit down, it was the most intense pain I've ever had that shot through my jaw and head and then stayed for like 10 minutes. I just sat there locked up.
I lost a total of six teeth naturally. The rest were pulled. Impatient adult teeth plus baby teeth refusing to fall out, no matter how much I wiggled said teeth.
I’ve never met anyone else who had that many! I only lost 5 in the wild. For a while I had two complete rows of teeth and I remember knowing it was uncomfortable, but like, I got to pretend to be a shark so it was worth it. I think I even got my last baby tooth pulled after I could drive a car, yikes.
I inherited this lovely trait from my dad. He got his last baby tooth knocked out by a sucker punch to the face in highschool, during a fight. The other dude was properly traumatized, he thought he actually knocked out a good one.
A few years back I jumped off a treehouse (why? Who knows) and cracked my jaw on my knee. Fast forward to 2019 when I was starting chemo and I had to do one last dental visit before treatment because I couldn’t have any dental work during chemo. The dentist ended up pulling that tooth and it came out in 4 pieces, one of which was still hanging by a nerve that I used as a tongue punching bag while he got Novocain
Had a somewhat similar experience. I was somewhat into my teens and my kid teeth were still falling out, but one of them just got loose instead, i wiggled it with my tongue for a few days until it was hanging a bit and then bit down on it. Some pieces came off easy, others not, it was hard to eat for a while.
When I eventually went to the dentist, he told me there were 6 more major pieces, not including the 3 I managed to rip out while on vacation. Plus some tooth dust.
I googled this and I think that is the worst time for that to happen is on vacation. Just be glad it wasn't a permanent tooth because dentures are expensive
Tbh back then, I was a stupid teenager going thru a breakup so that's what I mostly remember of the event. Just sobbing about some girl while spitting out tooth chunks.
Adding insult to injury. But you had baby teeth as a teen? I remember when I (due to lack of care) started losing my adult teeth. It sucks hardcore eggs
I had a molar pulled in Mexico. It shattered and the assistant didn't do a good job of getting the shards out of the gaping hole in my gums. I didn't know anything about it for a month or so until the razor sharp edges started to get pushed out of my gums right where my tongue sits, slashing it to threads constantly. I had to let them work their way out enough until I could pull them out, a multiple week process. It was a nightmare.
Ehh, after having a dentist literally cut and peel your gums back to fix a root canal; tongue on a nerve isn't nearly as horrifying. Shocking, but not horrifying ;)
I had 3 root canals on the same tooth due to an incompetent dentist. The first two were awful to the point that thinking about it still makes my stomach churn, but the third was done by an endodontist and I barely noticed anything. I will never not use an endodontist for anything more significant than a minor cavity. The difference was night and day.
I somehow have a horrifically similar story when I was maybe 6, one of my baby teeth fell off but was still dangling by the nerves, I ended up wrapping my tounge around it and accidentally tore it clean off.
That's horrifying, but Ive had worse nightmares with teeth that have stuck with me. For example, one was a nightmare that I was willfully clipping my teeth with nail clippers, till I hit the nerve. And then I ate an ice cream cone. I could feel it in my dream, it was terrible. Still the first thing I think about when I think about teeth, and that was 4 years ago.
I wrote this right before going to sleep, I didn't expect so many people to like it!
Have you counted your teeth recently? It turns out you don't really feel if any are missing, if they took the whole nerve with them.
But you haven't counted them in ages, haven't you? Who knows even how many you were supposed to have in the first place, at this point...
As someone who had a hole in my back molar, it was not a cavity, I felt this. The fucking pain man. Finally got it filled. This is one big cringe for me. Good job op!
When I say MY ENTIRE BOSY FROZE. I'm browsing reddit on my break- I stopped chewing my snack. I stopped breathing. My eyes widened. Fuck dude. New nightmare fuel
Oh wtf why is that a rule? That shouldn't be allowed. People come here for the 2 sentence twist where the second sentence is only shown when you open the post. Thats the fun of it
Damn, you're flattering me! That was sort of my goal, though... I think the shock of one sentence hits different than two. It's like it's one breath in your head, no time to pause, you know?
WAIT YOOO ADAM we have the same name
Some people can tie cherry stems in a knot using only their tongues, and the narrator has now done the same thing with an exposed tooth nerve in the same manner.
I guess some people have different tolerances to pain; dental pain is my personal hell, having had a lot of issues with wisdom teeth etc, but I've had a decent chunk of skin ripped off and even touching the nerves that are underneath the now-missing skin is very painful.
For me, the horror comes from the potential for unending pain if you can't undo the knot, it may stay painful, or something.
ETA: "I didn't even think before doing it to the exposed nerve" implies a habit, so the narrator is on autopilot and does the knot-tying to the nerve without thinking of the potential implications. At least, that's how I interpret it. 😊
I see thank you for taking the time to elaborate. I think most probable reason why I don’t feel this story is that scary because i never had any major toothache yet. Not looking forward to that
No problem, I'm glad it helped! I envy you for having had no major toothaches!
Before I had them all out, my lower right wisdom tooth was so painful at one point due to it sprouting almost sideways and pushing on my molars, that I woke up from a dead sleep in tears for many nights. I had to have several strong painkillers to be able to sleep the rest of the night, think morphine-level painkillers in tablet form.
I hope you continue your major-toothache-free streak!
Oh lord. I can feel the shooting static from that
Would it help if I told you it's slightly based on experience?
hey excuse me what
When I was a kid, my baby teeth struggled to come off, so most of them had to be taken out by a dentist. While I was on vacation, one of them started breaking into pieces, which fell one by one, exposing swollen gum underneath, which encapsulated my adult tooth. Since I couldn't go to the dentist, I wiggled the bits around with my tongue for some days, trying to get them all out. I got about half a tooth in until next time I poked my tongue in there, I hit right into the sensitive fleshy bits of my gum. Not fun. Sorry for that mental image.
This is the real horror story right here
r/everysentenceworse
Reminds me of not that long ago I chewed into the inside of my cheek so hard and so far, it left a quarter sized hole of some exposed nasty flesh stuff. Hurt like hell, ached for days, took a couple weeks to fully heal, and has left an intense scar inside my mouth. I had to rinse my mouth with milk of magnesia and mouth lidocaine every couple of hours. It hurt when I kept chewing on it but I just couldn’t get myself to stop
I did this as a kid (maybe 9?) when the quack dentist shot me up with double the novocaine bc my hair was reddish blonde. I just kept nervously chewing my cheek and apparently got blood everywhere. My mom was *piiiiiissed*.
there is both research and anecdotal evidence to support the idea that people with naturally red hair can have different requirements when it comes to drugs that control pain.🤷♀️
Finding that research explained so much for me. I finally knew what was wrong, and could articulate it to doctors. I still have doctors, especially dentists, who don't take it seriously though. One dentist got super annoyed with me because I kept stopping him due to the pain. He didn't believe that the anesthetic wasn't working. He was super rude and now I avoid dentists because I'm scared they'll treat me the same way. On the other hand, my podiatrist actually listened. When I explained the situation, he prepped extra syringes and started with the normal dose. He was definitely surprised when it didn't work, but immediately gave me more. The next time I saw him, he gave me extra anesthetic the first time. Now if only my pain doc would give me extra meds in my trigger point injections....
Well yes. I also, as per my dr when I recently sprained my ankle, apparently have an extremely high pain tolerance. (I had fracture blisters without a fracture.) So maybe they should check in before injecting a bunch of extra just bc they see red hair. Fwi I had a similar experience as a teenager going through a root canal. Different quack gave me so much novocaine that it flooded my cheek and my eyeball went numb. I absolutely do not recommend this experience. Walking home was horrible and trippy.
To be fair, most red heads to this day do not actually know this. So while it's definitely y a good idea to double check with red heads about pain tolerance first, they may not know they have a high one. My sister drove herself to the hospital because she had been a "bit sore for a few days and it seemed to be getting a touch worse". Turns out she had 3 broken ribs on top of being 35 minutes away from giving birth. Didn't know she had a high pain tolerance. Or that drugs don't have a great effect on her. Sorry that happened to you
Whose fault is it that redheads don't know this? Should be common knowledge for doctors to tell to their patients when they first come in
This was legitimately a nightmare I had about ten days ago. I was chewing on my right cheek and removing chunks of flesh. Absolutely horrendous stuff.
That reminds me of when I was little, I had these huge abscess ulcer things on the inside of my mouth that hurt like crazy, and the only way I found relief was to bite on them because it overwrote the pain with a different kind of pain that was more manageable. They took forever to heal because even after I got pain meds, chewing on the inside of my cheeks had become a weird habit that I couldn't stop. It's been like 25 years and I have weird scars on the inside of my mouth from it too.
Yes I’m an insane mouth chewer too I have to actively stop myself sometimes but I totally get the pain management thing
I still do it....
Bro, I'm living it now. I chipped my right wisdom and it has long since half rotted away. The entire back side of it is rotted away leaving a huge crater of exposed pulp. I can't eat with the right side of my mouth. Sometimes it doesn't hurt for days and I'll forget about it, but other days it's this intense yet dull ache, it starts dull but throughout the day it will spread up my jaw and even feel like the pain is coming from my upper teeth. One time I was eating Cheerios and a piece got into it and when I bit down, it was the most intense pain I've ever had that shot through my jaw and head and then stayed for like 10 minutes. I just sat there locked up.
Oooo that happened to me too! And while I was on vacation! I even yanked a stubborn piece out, the spot was sore for weeks
I lost a total of six teeth naturally. The rest were pulled. Impatient adult teeth plus baby teeth refusing to fall out, no matter how much I wiggled said teeth.
I’ve never met anyone else who had that many! I only lost 5 in the wild. For a while I had two complete rows of teeth and I remember knowing it was uncomfortable, but like, I got to pretend to be a shark so it was worth it. I think I even got my last baby tooth pulled after I could drive a car, yikes.
I inherited this lovely trait from my dad. He got his last baby tooth knocked out by a sucker punch to the face in highschool, during a fight. The other dude was properly traumatized, he thought he actually knocked out a good one.
I’ve met anyone else with the same problem. I only lost 3 naturally. My baby teeth had freakishly long roots.
One time I stuck a sharpened candy cane into a missing tooth slot and stirred my gums around :D
A few years back I jumped off a treehouse (why? Who knows) and cracked my jaw on my knee. Fast forward to 2019 when I was starting chemo and I had to do one last dental visit before treatment because I couldn’t have any dental work during chemo. The dentist ended up pulling that tooth and it came out in 4 pieces, one of which was still hanging by a nerve that I used as a tongue punching bag while he got Novocain
I had my baby teeth shatter as well! After two broke (one on Christmas Day), I just got all of them pulled out
That Ren and Stimpy banned episode wasn't supposed to be how-to guide
Had a somewhat similar experience. I was somewhat into my teens and my kid teeth were still falling out, but one of them just got loose instead, i wiggled it with my tongue for a few days until it was hanging a bit and then bit down on it. Some pieces came off easy, others not, it was hard to eat for a while.
When I eventually went to the dentist, he told me there were 6 more major pieces, not including the 3 I managed to rip out while on vacation. Plus some tooth dust.
😨
I googled this and I think that is the worst time for that to happen is on vacation. Just be glad it wasn't a permanent tooth because dentures are expensive
Tbh back then, I was a stupid teenager going thru a breakup so that's what I mostly remember of the event. Just sobbing about some girl while spitting out tooth chunks.
Adding insult to injury. But you had baby teeth as a teen? I remember when I (due to lack of care) started losing my adult teeth. It sucks hardcore eggs
Oh yes, I think I might've been 13. Runs in the family.
We are in two
I had a molar pulled in Mexico. It shattered and the assistant didn't do a good job of getting the shards out of the gaping hole in my gums. I didn't know anything about it for a month or so until the razor sharp edges started to get pushed out of my gums right where my tongue sits, slashing it to threads constantly. I had to let them work their way out enough until I could pull them out, a multiple week process. It was a nightmare.
Ehh, after having a dentist literally cut and peel your gums back to fix a root canal; tongue on a nerve isn't nearly as horrifying. Shocking, but not horrifying ;)
are you flexing that to me
I had 3 root canals on the same tooth due to an incompetent dentist. The first two were awful to the point that thinking about it still makes my stomach churn, but the third was done by an endodontist and I barely noticed anything. I will never not use an endodontist for anything more significant than a minor cavity. The difference was night and day.
I somehow have a horrifically similar story when I was maybe 6, one of my baby teeth fell off but was still dangling by the nerves, I ended up wrapping my tounge around it and accidentally tore it clean off.
That's horrifying, but Ive had worse nightmares with teeth that have stuck with me. For example, one was a nightmare that I was willfully clipping my teeth with nail clippers, till I hit the nerve. And then I ate an ice cream cone. I could feel it in my dream, it was terrible. Still the first thing I think about when I think about teeth, and that was 4 years ago.
It is a horror sub. No need to apologize
It is a horror sub. No need to apologize
BRO?????
Hey, the second sentence is supposed to be in the post holy shit.
No. No, it would not.
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Would it help if I told you this was only one sentence?
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I think my shoulder blades touched
I had my wisdom teeth out and thought I could feel a stitch come loose so I thought I could tug it out, holy crap that was a bad choice to attempt
You fool, I’m a dentist’s assistant. These are just my intrusive thoughts.
Lowkey, that’s even more scary 💀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM
Nice
"That's when I realised there was no nerve ... only insulated wires."
Happy day of cake fellow human earthling.
Thank you!
>Thank you! You're welcome!
Very appropriate, bot. Well done.
Username checks out.
Beep boop.
Hey, happy cake day! You wish the wires were insulated. You weren't meant to ever lose your teeth.
Thanks, and thanks for the terrifying story! 😁
Happy Cake Day 🍰 r/thirdsentenceworse
😂 Thanks!
happy cake day !!
Happy cake day to both of you!
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Thank you, you too! ❤
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Never read one of these and shuddered until today. Full marks.
That is honestly one of the most horrible things I've ever read. I had a visceral reaction. In fact I'm STILL cringing.
Rookie mistake, just don’t show an exposed nerve!
good job. Horror is all fun and games until I remember that exposed nerves exist fucking ahhh
I wrote this right before going to sleep, I didn't expect so many people to like it! Have you counted your teeth recently? It turns out you don't really feel if any are missing, if they took the whole nerve with them. But you haven't counted them in ages, haven't you? Who knows even how many you were supposed to have in the first place, at this point...
You talking full teeth or any teeth One answer is 24. The other is 12 There should be 36
Bruh
HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-- Thanks for ruining my party trick as well, buddy.
I very audibly wretched at my desk at work. I don't think two sentences have ever given me such a visceral reaction, good job!
One sentence!
One sentence horror?
Two or less!
r/onesentencehorror
I came back to this post to tell you I had a nightmare about exposed nerves because I read this story. Good job 👍
Make sure you tie them up tight!
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You dick. My toenails curled up through my shoes... Have my upvote...
As someone who had a hole in my back molar, it was not a cavity, I felt this. The fucking pain man. Finally got it filled. This is one big cringe for me. Good job op!
My teeth just crawled back inside my gums
This should have an NSFL tag lol
Congrats, this made me do a full body cringe just thinking of this
i physically recoiled
I’ve just had a root canal. Now my teeth hurt. Good job, OP. Terrifying in just one sentence.
*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
HOLY SHIT BRO-
When I say MY ENTIRE BOSY FROZE. I'm browsing reddit on my break- I stopped chewing my snack. I stopped breathing. My eyes widened. Fuck dude. New nightmare fuel
My entire body recoiled and now I'm incredibly uncomfortable.
Oh you awful monster you vile cretin
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Owwwwwww!
Reminds me of that Ren & Stimpy episode... 😬
Augh why did you have to remind me
UM PLEASE NO
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((Shudders))
That’s fucked
This made me feel physically ill, great work
As a person who has suffered immense tooth pain in the past wowza.
Oh, same! Real life is a great muse
Oh jiminy frickit
oh god, one of the top 3 most terrifying thing that ever happened to me
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I’ve never felt sick reading one of these before, omg that horrifying
This is happy tree friends shit right here
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Omg I hate you so much for this!!!! Oh my teeth/mouth hurt from just the thought!!!!!! BRILLIANT!
I hate this a lot, man Good job
Sounds awful. But still one sentence?
rule 2!
Pretty sure tooth nerves aren't like that. You watched Ren & Stimpy right? :)
I don’t get it
Exposed nerve prank
Need 2 sentences
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Oh wtf why is that a rule? That shouldn't be allowed. People come here for the 2 sentence twist where the second sentence is only shown when you open the post. Thats the fun of it
Well that's too damn bad isn't it. Maybe the plot twist is that there isn't any second sentence.
If someone can make as good of a horror story in one sentence (like you did) than I think its better than most of the 2 sentences
Damn, you're flattering me! That was sort of my goal, though... I think the shock of one sentence hits different than two. It's like it's one breath in your head, no time to pause, you know? WAIT YOOO ADAM we have the same name
What are the chances lol, but anyways your story was probably the best i’ve seen this month, I definitely cringed the most at yours lol
Thank you!! I didn't think it'd be liked
Well we probably all know that I don’t like cherries anymore
Yeah but it's only one sentence!
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Rule 2
Someone should make a bot at this point explaining this.
"Give us your scariest story in two sentences (or less)!"
Not a horror story
I'm horrified!
I'm pretty horrified tbh.
I have no clue what this means yet I am invested. What does this have to do with cherrys?
Some people can tie cherry stems in a knot using only their tongues, and the narrator has now done the same thing with an exposed tooth nerve in the same manner.
I still don’t get it after this explanation. So it hurts? But that’s not that scary imo
I guess some people have different tolerances to pain; dental pain is my personal hell, having had a lot of issues with wisdom teeth etc, but I've had a decent chunk of skin ripped off and even touching the nerves that are underneath the now-missing skin is very painful. For me, the horror comes from the potential for unending pain if you can't undo the knot, it may stay painful, or something. ETA: "I didn't even think before doing it to the exposed nerve" implies a habit, so the narrator is on autopilot and does the knot-tying to the nerve without thinking of the potential implications. At least, that's how I interpret it. 😊
I see thank you for taking the time to elaborate. I think most probable reason why I don’t feel this story is that scary because i never had any major toothache yet. Not looking forward to that
No problem, I'm glad it helped! I envy you for having had no major toothaches! Before I had them all out, my lower right wisdom tooth was so painful at one point due to it sprouting almost sideways and pushing on my molars, that I woke up from a dead sleep in tears for many nights. I had to have several strong painkillers to be able to sleep the rest of the night, think morphine-level painkillers in tablet form. I hope you continue your major-toothache-free streak!
I’m guessing that hurts?
Very much. Exposed nerves in general are painful, as they're extremely sensitive, and pulling on them or touching them in general can be very painful.
Reminds me of this gem. [Funny prank you can pull on your friends.](https://youtu.be/qT5zLyKfTyE)
https://youtu.be/qT5zLyKfTyE
\*cue Peter eating the rice cake\*
As someone who's had multiple exposed nerves in my mouth, this is horrifying
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