my teeth hurt...

Don-Wi

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I was working on loosening some stubborn socket head bolts with a 3/8" allen wrench and a dead a dead blow hammer. The wrench came out of the bolt head and flew at me, hitting me in the upper lip giving me a nice gash, almost perfectly dead center, with a perfect crescent.. Didn't hit my teeth, but right above them.

I filled out an accident report just in case I did do some damage to my teeth higher up. I go to the dentist in June, but if they still hurt in a week or so I'll probably call and try to get in. I get a panoramic x ray then so anything should pop up if there's a problem.

One of those one in a million shots...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
Tossed a roofing screw to my wife and the
pointy end poked her in the bottom lip. Those
sheet metal screws are sharp and I felt smaller
than that screw. One of those things..."Really?!"
 
If they stop hurting before your appointment still have it checked out. It might save future problems.
 
I've already got a reminder in my phone to read when it reminds me of my appointment.... About the only way I'd remember anything that far out. I was talking to the shops owner to get the run down of the meeting I missed the day before while trying to stop the bleeding. All of a sudden I felt a rush, a cold sweat, and got a little dizzy- Had to sit down.

Normally I can handle injury just fine, but this one just got me. I sat down in the break room for 5-10 minutes, had a can of pop and was good to go again other than the ache. Just one of those days...

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I always wear safety glasses at work. Ear plugs too, even though it's not that loud. Definately would've taken out an eye though. I was pretty surprised how nice of a gash it was.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
I've got a small chip out of one of my front teeth from a similar accident. I was lying in the cab of a rubber tired loader working under the dash when the ratchet slipped and the handle hit my tooth. I was in serious pain for a few minutes and Dad and the customer were giving me he!! about being such a baby...until they saw the chip, then they felt bad. Never had any problems out of it other than a slightly rough spot that bugged the crap out of me til it smoothed itself out naturally after awhile.
In the end as unlucky at something like this happening is, it's nice to be lucky enough that the end result isn't as serious as the initial pain.
 
You learned why they make socket type Allen wrenches. Then use a breaker bar on them.

As for your teeth I would go now to have them checked out. If you really have damage then the dentist needs to start work now not after a tooth maybe dead.

Brother got hit in the mouth with a baseball. He waited a week and ended up loosing two teeth because they where dead by the time he went to the dentist.
 
If your teeth are still hurting this morning better call the Dentist. You really don't want to loose your teeth. Getting hit above the teeth in the root area can really damage them.
Think about when you loose a finger nail--where did you really get hit? Above the nail, not on the nail.
 
I sure wouldn't wait. Workman's comp may ask why you waited so long. You only get one set of permanent teeth.
 
A coupla years ago, I was working on a tractor, pulling powerslide
wheel clamps, to lube them up, IIRR, anyway, cant really describe it,
but I didn't feel right, couldn't pin it down to anything specific, but
anyway, the wrench slipped off the bolt, and my head dropped
down, hitting the front of my chin, on a tire cleat, hit was just
below the tooth root line. Felt like a semaphore signal of pain, de
deet deet dah deet, OWWW! turns out I had an abscess, under one
of the center lower teeth. Lesson learned, don't mess with tooth
pain! If it hurts Monday, I would go get it looked at.
 
Don't wait.
Go now. You could have a fracture of the part of the jawbone that supports the teeth. I have seen a few workmans comp cases like this from the local car dealerships. The upper jaw is part of the structure that supports the floor of the eye socket and the base of the skull.
Not a good area to take chances with.
A panoramic film should tell the tale, but the Doc may want single films in that area too because they show better detail.
 
Definitely get the medical attention immediately, needed to determine if there are any problems, one of those things one should not put off.

I wear safety glasses and hearing protection quite a bit, and sometimes I forget I have the ear plugs in, was airing up a hand truck tire and it blew, could have broke an ear drum, it sounded loud with them in, I was thankful for being disciplined enough and making a habit of wearing safety apparel.

While doing firewood a few weeks back, I had the logs in the loader bucket to make them easy to lift to the splitter. I had bought a new tool for handling the logs or blocks as some call them once bucked. Its some sort of of heavy and maybe solid hose, Bailey's sells them and its apparently named after someone, likely the inventor, on the ends of the hose are hooks. The tool is awesome, for larger blocks, makes them so easy to handle and reduces how far you have to bend down, and provides a nice handle, you do have to cut accurate lengths, well within a few inches. Being new to the tool, I started using it from the bucket, not realizing a few things, it was at face height and there is a certain way to hook the log and or way to use the tool, well the forward hook, did not seat and came off and whacked me square in the eye or just above it, the point thankfully can't really get you was just the radius of the back of it, it would have opened me up above the eye, but the safety glasses took all of the brunt. I learned a few things, never work at face height with the tool, lower the bucket. It reinforced the rules for this tool, always take your time, hook it right, don't carry over your feet, and most likely I'll never really need to use it from the bucket to the splitter any way, just to load the bucket. Always something new or unique seems to be when these things happen or being in a "hurry". Now I'm a firm believer in both the safety glasses and a face shield, that darned thing could have hit above or below the glasses and hurt like heck, besides the narrowly missed sutures that would have likely been required.

When charging 12V batteries, airing up tires, I wear the plugs and the safety glasses, those ear plugs are always in a round plastic case in my left pocket.

Went to a concert with some friends, of the loud genre, queensryche, to most thats just noise, but there is sort of a theatrical aspect of it, and or some of the tunes I did like, and of course I'm not a metal head, like all kinds of music and enjoy most no matter what, I went along, good show, but we were in the front row, way too loud and I had no ear plugs. In that situation you can sort of adjust them to take the excess DB, but still listen and enjoy the show. It sounds foolish, who goes to a show and wears earplugs, ME ! Just dampens the sound if too loud and your ears don't ring, mine did for days after that show and ever since I am never without a pair in my pocket.
 
If it was at work and might be a comp case get the dr. soon. Although, I don't think there's anything they can do. Stupid story: about ten years ago i was tickling my wife and she fell over one of those baby gates across the hallway. she fell and bumped her upper lip area like you did. In a few months her front tooth died! And got a little dark. I had to pay for tooth bleaching both internal and external (think $$). Its not perfect and will eventually fall out!
 
It's hurting more tonight, so I called and I'm gonna get in tomorrow afternoon. It is indeed a workman's comp case, got all the paperwork filled out and such, and another stack I have to bring along tomorrow when I go.

My oldest brother was the safety guy for one of Kohler's foundries and now teaches OSHA safety training for a tech school, so I gave him a jingle. He pretty much had the same advise, get it checked out just to be safe. A dead tooth is exactly my concern and why I went ahead and reported it yesterday. Something so stupid but it's probably gonna cost some $$$ to fix it now.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 

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