# Ouch! I just bit into a chunk of ... bone? Tooth? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064 "2022-12-05T17:56:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/1 "2022-12-05T17:56:03Z")
So I’m eating leftover chicken vindaloo for lunch and I bite down on something hard. Take it out, and it looks like…a tooth? Or a piece of a tooth? It was rounded and smooth and toothy-looking on one side, and broken-off flat on the other. About the size and shape of a pea cut in half. Of course, I obsessively ran my tongue over every tooth several times over, seeing if I had any missing teeth, missing parts of teeth, missing crowns…all seemed good. I’m still checking every now and then just to make sure. I’m going to assume it was a bit of bone, even though I used cut-up boneless chicken breasts in the curry. I don’t want to contemplate the alternative…someone else’s tooth? 😱 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/2 "2022-12-05T18:01:10Z")
Bone (and pit, for things like olives) removal is not perfect. It is possible to encounter a bit from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/3 "2022-12-06T03:20:38Z")
I broke a tooth on a hot dog one time. There was a bit of bone in it. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/4 "2022-12-06T13:45:17Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > Bone (and pit, for things like olives) removal is not perfect. That really just depends on where you source your chicken from. [![](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTo-lJbdpUY9_Z_hTUI7DfZbGBgSr0mGDIfjw&usqp=CAU) ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTo-lJbdpUY9_Z_hTUI7DfZbGBgSr0mGDIfjw&usqp=CAU) ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/5 "2022-12-06T15:01:26Z")
This reminded me of the time I was on a short road trip. I stopped at a Holiday gas station to fill up and when paying noticed a bin of warm roasted cashews on the counter. They looked delicious! So because when you’re on a road trip you must eat lots of snack foods, I bought a bag. And they were so good - warm and salty. Luckily, I just happened to look down at one point and noticed something odd in the bag. I pulled it out. It was an actual rotted human (?) molar! I say rotted because it looked like it had cavities in it. 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/6 "2022-12-06T15:29:28Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > I broke a tooth on a hot dog one time. There was a bit of bone in it. One Saturday afternoon years ago Mrs. solost had gone somewhere with the kids, so I had a rare ‘me’ day. I made popcorn and settled in to watch a movie. I bit down on an unpopped kernel right on a molar that was compromised with a deep filling. The molar basically disintegrated. My ‘me’ day turned into an emergency trip to the dentist 😥 > [@Munch](#): > > That really just depends on where you source your chicken from. Thanks for the Far Side cartoon, and nice username for this thread 😉 > [@TRC4941](#): > > Luckily, I just happened to look down at one point and noticed something odd in the bag. I pulled it out. It was an actual rotted human (?) molar! I say rotted because it looked like it had cavities in it. 🤮 🤮 is right!! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/7 "2022-12-06T15:34:04Z")
OMG! - We _finally_ got a vomit smiley! We’ve needed one for years. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/8 "2022-12-06T16:59:35Z")
Just to throw another weird possibility out there: I once jabbed my gum with the corner of the toothbrush and got a nasty little sore or ulcer there. It wasn’t healing and kept hurting for quite a few days. Then I noticed it had a smooth white head to it. I watched this for a while, and tried touching it but it was quite painful to touch. Eventually I poked a bit harder at it, and it fell off. It was “a piece of a tooth? It was rounded and smooth and toothy-looking on one side, and broken-off flat on the other. About the size and shape of a pea cut in half.” Being the sort that would have a microscope at home, I looked at it under the microscope. The convex side was smooth and shiny and hard. The other side was rough and looked a bit like a break through a frozen sponge, kind of a cross section through foam, and also hard. The sore healed pretty quickly after that. I did some investigating. Turns out it was very probably a bit of my jawbone. Wounds through gum that irritate the bone can cause a chunk of it to flake away and kind of migrate to the surface. It sounded like some kind of sacrificial healing mechanism, like the bone would rather discard a wounded bit than try to make it healthy again. So – could this be it? ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/9 "2022-12-06T17:26:07Z")
I was eating ice cream we got at a shop and there in my ice cream is half a tooth. I yelled out across the shop to the Mrs., “Hey I found a tooth in my ice cream!” to document when and where it happened. In my mind, I was already spending the money I’d make on the lawsuit when she yelled back, “Is it yours?” I put my tongue to where my cap used to be. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/10 "2022-12-06T17:36:21Z")
> [@Napier](#): > > So – could this be it? Could it be what - a piece of my jawbone? Don’t think so, all my parts were pretty well accounted for. A piece of someone else’s jawbone? Maybe… ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-i-just-bit-into-a-chunk-of-bone-tooth/976064/11 "2022-12-06T17:43:21Z")
This is what happens when you outsource your chicken / chicken feed to those people from Soylent. What? Someone was going to have to make the reference!