My two front top teeth are shorter than they were before I hit the back of a station wagon, went over the handlebars and landed face-first on the rear door.

It happened when I was around 15, riding back home with my friend Linda from tennis lessons across town . I had looked back to say something to her and didn't notice the car in front of me had stopped.

I wound up with a lovely inverted V-shaped chip on the bottom of my 2 front teeth so my dentist filed away at the bottoms so that the chip wasn't so noticeable. It doesn't look too weird anymore.