Well compared to your eye injuries mine seems somewhat insignificant, but I developed a fear of dentists afterwards.
As a kid (that was still in the times of socialism where you didn't have private dental practices, but you were assigned to a dentist) I got an elderly woman for a dentist. The problem was her hands. They were shaking all the time - so she had to hold the drill with both hands in order to steady it.
I don't know what happened when she was drilling my tooth, but she had to screw up big time!
I was 11 and she started drilling one of my teeth. Obviously her hand sliped or something with her drill still on, because she injured my gums - that's right, she drilled for a second or so in the gums and not the teeth. It took quite a while to heal, but it's OK now. The pain was great, but not unbearable. The biggest effect was a phychological one - I'm still mortally terrified of dentists and I get a high fiever just by knowing I'll have to go for a check-up.
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