16th May 2003, 1:08 PM
It's not really that bad for you. Your body DOES heal you know, so whatever burning it may do is easily done away with. Leaving a tooth in soda MAY in fact cause it to rot, but that's a dead tooth! Dead bone and living bone have very different properties.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)