Mine is a fairly common basketball injury. I was going up for a rebound and came down on the side of another guy's foot. Tore the ligaments in my ankle and was in a cast for 6 weeks or so.
My son's injury was just a bit worse. He was a pitcher on his high school team and during batting practice he took a line drive square in the grill. Tore two teeth out by the root and a third was pushed back into his mouth and for all intents and purposes might as well have been torn out. We decided on implants, but when the time came to do the surgery it was discovered that the bone in his mouth had shrunk. This meant a bone graft had to be done, so a piece was moved from his chin area. Once that healed, he was finally able to get the implants. Took over a year to get it all done.
My son's injury was just a bit worse. He was a pitcher on his high school team and during batting practice he took a line drive square in the grill. Tore two teeth out by the root and a third was pushed back into his mouth and for all intents and purposes might as well have been torn out. We decided on implants, but when the time came to do the surgery it was discovered that the bone in his mouth had shrunk. This meant a bone graft had to be done, so a piece was moved from his chin area. Once that healed, he was finally able to get the implants. Took over a year to get it all done.