Wow that's really interesting knowledge! In the past I thought all teeth in a snake's mouth is like the skull.
OMG looks super painful!! Maybe the strongest and wildest boa can survive in the wild... so she must be a really wild and strong animal...Hope that no scar left on your hand.. Is she much calmer now?
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Teeth are among the few things that a snake cannot digest. Tooth enamel is about as chemically inert as a body part can be. So when a loose tooth gets caught in a prey animal and is pulled free, the tooth just goes down into the stomach with the food and on out in the poop. A food rodent's teeth, hair and claws are not digested and become part of the snake's poop, too.

Snake skulls: https://www.google.com/search?q=snak...N6oTNUj16RrFM:

In the pictures, note the gaps between teeth. Those mark where loose teeth were lost during skull preparation.

The 7-foot female boa constrictor that gave me my worst bite was wild caught and had a larger head than most boas I've seen. Her mouth was wide open when she nailed me across the back of the hand. So lots of teeth went into me in an area with large veins and a short distance between veins and skin surface. That's why I dripped blood all over the floor. Most of my other bites involved fewer or smaller teeth going into areas with smaller veins and more padding.