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Not too bad for me, either, been very lucky that way. Had some hearing issues, and had 5 ear surgeries when I was very young, but that happened so early on that I don't have any memories from it directly. (I do remember all the fuss and bother every time I had an ear infection, later, and the intense debates about ear tubes (built up scar tissue had them both leery of using them and also worried about ruptures if they didn't).
I also had my tonsils out when I was very young -I was an underweight baby, according to my mother, and I had a lot of issues with spitting up all the time and not getting enough down, and they said my tonsils were so oversized it was triggering gag reflex when I'd try to swallow, so they took them out.
Again, too young to remember that.
Then there was that awful orthodontist who decided to remove ONE tooth (upper right just behind the canine) and left me lopsided, and then later the attempt to even it out by only removing three of my wisdom teeth -except the fourth never came in properly so they ended up having to remove that, too.
For the oral surgeries...
I apparently am VERY susceptible to the whatever-it-is-they were using. They put in the IV and I was out before they even did that thing asking you to count backwards from 10, and then I didn't wake up on time after.... and I slept for nearly two days and never had any pain because I wasn't awake.
Dad says they kept going into the room and checking my pulse and all, since I didn't wake up, and even debated calling the hospital. But I was fine, I was just unconscious.
It worried me, later, to have that great big gap in my memories, when I was helpless and anything could have happened.
So for the later of the oral surgeries, I made them use less powerful anesthetics. Not fun, but less worrying.
All in all, I've been really lucky!
A nerve wrapped around your tooth sounds really scary, in comparison! I hope it stays a VERY healthy tooth so you don't have to do anything with it later.
Hikari, how do you turn and bend with rods and screws in your spine? How does that work? Are they like tiny little mini ones or do they run up and down your whole spine? (Don't answer if you don't want to! I'm curious but don't want to pry if you'd rather not!)
Oh!
Did you get to have an xray first? I think it would be so neat to be able to see your own bones like that! I've heard that we have teensy tiny little ones here and there called "sesamoid" bones after "sesame seeds" because they're so small, and ever since I heard that I've wanted to try and find them on an xray. I don't even know where they are, exactly, since the doctor who told me just said, "Oh, all over, and different people can develop them different places" which doesn't tell me much.
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It looks really messed up pre-surgery because of the unnatural looking curves. 
The misalignment can affect your shoulders, hips, boobs, etc placement so if it doesn't get treated, you can have lots of other problems. You gotta have an x-ray first so they know what to fix. Usually it's detected by having someone touch their toes and following the spine.
