Rugby Players Are the Toughest Athletes

Here's why:

An Australian rugby player blithely played for almost four months without realising an opponent's tooth was embedded in his forehead.

Ben Czislowski, who represents the Wynnum Manly Seagulls rugby league team in Queensland, acquired the additional tooth when he clashed with Tweed Heads' forward Matt Austin in a local derby on April 1.

The prop later suffered an eye infection and complained of lethargy and shooting pains in his head, but only discovered the rogue denture when he visited his doctor last week. The small tooth had somehow embedded itself under his skin on the player's already scarred brow.

"The worst that I got out of it is that my head looked uglier than it does normally."

I'm speechless.