Mild ouchies and much tooth-based pain
Aged 13 I was told I needed braces - would have a removable brace for a year, then train tracks for a year then I'd be fine.

Until they checked the X-rays, and discovered I had an impacted canine which would need to be dragged down via train tracks. Cue the surgery under local anaesthetic (there was a 14-month waiting list to have it under general) - cutting open the gum, attacking one of the blocks they use when you have train tracks, tying some wire around it and then sewing it back up, for the wire to be used to drag it down via the train tracks. This was okay - incredibly nerve-wracking, lying there having had six injections in the roof of your mouth, eyes tight shut hearing someone asking the nurse for 'scalpel... scissors...' My mum was in the room to reassure me, and when they were sewing up the impacted canine she was telling me "it's okay, it's nearly over."

Until they started on the other side. I was not expecting that. Six more injections, more cutting it open and me informing them the anaesthetic wasn't strong enough by means of extensive tears.

Had to go back an hour later as the wires had become untangled and I couldn't close my mouth.

For some reason that obviously made perfect sense to 13-year-old Epinephrine I took a couple of photos, which I stumbled across on the old computer a couple of years ago and gave me a start, as they looked like something out of a horror movie :/
(epinephrine, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 23:33, Reply)