Yeah, I’m not eating popcorn anymore.

Sorry for your bad experience. In 1986 I got my first set of full dentures. Nothing is perfect and I got another later on. About 2 years ago I got an expensive set of dentures guaranteed not to wear of crack for 10 years. This is not the plate, but the teeth themselves. No more pain and when I sleep the dentures are in a cup in another room.

Pitted olives may harbor fragments of pits. Not fun.

With popcorn my worst experiences are shells wedged in the gums toward the back teeth that are hard to remove by brushing or flossing. I’ve experienced that with the bagged popcorn more than when I pop it myself.

I once broke a tooth on a Triscuit so don’t eat those anymore, which is a shame because I loved them.

I am also in bridge/implant land, after an endodontist fractured a tooth during a root canal procedure. You're right about those popcorn kernels. It's so easy to overlook them when you're indulging! Good luck with your bridge.

Beware chomping down on birds shot by a hunter. The piece of lead, much smaller than an unpopped corn kernel, surprised me but happily no pain followed.

Same thing with dried fruit. When they are supposed to have no pits or have them taken out, but you get the odd one they missed, or sometimes a little bit of stalk that bakes really hard when cooked.