Mate, There’s a Tooth in There
Only in Rugby League:
Wynnum Manly’s Ben Czislowski had been feeling off-colour since a sickening head clash with Tweed Heads forward Matt Austin in April.
15 weeks later he discovered why, when his doctor found his opponent’s tooth lodged in his head.
Czislowski recounts to ABC News (Australia) that the injury was not unusual:
By the end of the game I couldn’t see out of my eye. I’ve had a lot of cuts, and bumps and bruises and that from playing rugby league, so it wasn’t, it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, it was a heavy collision but nothing different to what I’ve had before.
How can you not notice a tooth embedded in your head for three months?
It was really hard just above my eye. I thought it was scar tissue, and I’d asked a few people what they thought. And they thought it was scar tissue.
Czislowski didn’t have a clue the tooth was in there until he went to the doctors after feeling “really lethargic and really flat” in his game for months:
No TagsThe doctor had a look at it and he just automatically assumed that I’d need plastic surgery on to fix it, but he just said I’ll put a local in there and I’ll just get all the puss and stuff all around the eye. And so he did that, and he just said, Oh, there’s something hard in there, I think it’s calcification. And he got his tweezers out, and straight away he just said, you wouldn’t believe this. And he had a couple of swear words in there. And I said what, and he said mate there’s a tooth in there.
