Pardon Me, But Your
Teeth Are In My Head
Found on the Internet, authorship unknown
During a rugby league match in May 2004, Widnes Viking hooker
Shane Millard sustained a head gash after colliding with the Castleford Tigers'
Dean Ripley. He was patched up at half-time and sent back into the fray with a
headguard. Not until after the match did he notice that he had one of Ripley's
teeth embedded in his head.
”I went to the hospital nearest the club at Whiston, where they took x-rays of
the wound and said there was definitely something lodged in there,” Millard
recalled. “They told me to come back the following morning when they would have
a clearer picture. Sure enough, it was part of a tooth. I was given a local anesthetic
and then they blasted a tooth out with three packs of saline solution. The
tooth came out just as the anesthetic was wearing off. I've had a few injuries
in my time but this is certainly the strangest. But I'd rather have a gash on
my head than lose a part of a tooth. At least I keep my good looks.”