# Body parts that you're missing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 12, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922 "2005-10-12T18:14:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/21 "2005-10-12T19:08:16Z")
3 wisdom teeth, 6 extra molars that had to be surgically removed by peeling back the gums of my lower teeth (this hurt a lot :eek: while healing), my tonsils (when I was 6 weeks old. no ice cream for **marque elf**. ☹ ), my left foot’s big toe nail (but a replacement is growing back), my foreskin, several hemmerhoids (which almost killed me, the surgery not the 'rhoids), most of the feeling in both feet to diabetes, several nasal polyps (absolutely the worst pain I’ve ever experienced as the anasthetic didn’t work and the doctor wouldn’t stop operating to get one that worked), too many cavities to count, the nerves in 5 teeth due to root canals. Oh, yeah. As an 8 year old I had to have 4 baby teeth extracted as there were only supposed to be 2 where there was 4 and the adult teeth were trying to grow in to space that was already overbooked. I think I must have some shark genes in my ancestry. How else does one explain all those extra teeth? ---
**Author:** ![Darwins\_Finch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darwins_finch/32/20304_2.png) [@Darwins\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwins_Finch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/22 "2005-10-12T19:09:30Z")
> [@Giant\_Spongess](#): > > Isn’t that part of your face? 😕 It’s the little groove between your nose and your upper lip, so yeah, I guess you could say that. Doctors inserted a piece of cartiliage way back when to simulate the effect, but it’s really not noticeable. You can feel it, but not really see it. So, yeah, I look a bit odd. ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/23 "2005-10-12T19:13:00Z")
Missing due to surgical intervention: One wisdom tooth. One appendix. Two ovaries, one uterus, one set of fallopian tubes. One omentum. Smidgen of cartilege from left knee. Missing due to deterioration: Miscellaneous bits of spinal cartilege. Bits of the edges of spine. Yeah, it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/24 "2005-10-12T19:16:20Z")
Missing my baby teeth (naturally,) and a lymph node. I don’t have wisdom teeth, but that’s cause they haven’t come in yet. And you can have my foreskin when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/25 "2005-10-12T19:19:58Z")
Missing due to nature: - 6 permenant teeth- 4 on my bottom arch and 2 on my top. - 3 wisdom teeth. Yes, that’s right I’m missing 3. I have only one wisdom tooth and it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Missing due to surgery: - 4 baby teeth. I don’t count the ones I lost naturally. These were pulled due to the missing teeth from the above list. They were way too small to keep there so they got pulled. - Part of my septum. I had a deviated septum that was fixed about 4 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/26 "2005-10-12T19:22:27Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > Missing my baby teeth (naturally,) and a lymph node. I don’t have wisdom teeth, but that’s cause they haven’t come in yet. And you can have my foreskin when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! 😃 Uh… you can keep it. (And I thought we were done with all the boner threads. :D) What? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/27 "2005-10-12T19:29:46Z")
Wisdom teeth, and one of my ribs. I was horrified when my chiropractor nonchalantly mentioned that I have twelve ribs on my left side and eleven on my right; I started a thread about it awhile back. As far as I know, that’s it, but I went for 27 years before anyone bothered to tell me about the missing rib, so WHO KNOWS? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/28 "2005-10-12T19:35:52Z")
Half of my hamstring and the sciatic nerve. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/29 "2005-10-12T19:48:46Z")
10 lbs of breast. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/30 "2005-10-12T19:56:45Z")
Just my foreskin. And, I suppose, some baby teeth that liked it so much they had to be evicted when their lease was up and the new tenants wanted to move in… > [@Kyla](#): > > Wisdom teeth, and one of my ribs. I was horrified when my chiropractor nonchalantly mentioned that I have twelve ribs on my left side and eleven on my right; I started a thread about it awhile back. As far as I know, that’s it, but I went for 27 years before anyone bothered to tell me about the missing rib, so WHO KNOWS? Huh? It’s the **girl** whose missing a rib!? So much for _that_ creation story… ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/31 "2005-10-12T20:08:40Z")
Some of these posts are begging for explanations/stories. (BTW, I’m not missing anything terribly interesting–my wisdom teeth and the ACL from my right knee.) ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/32 "2005-10-12T20:11:37Z")
Wisdom teeth, tonsils, gallbladder - all gone. Recently, my right femur was disconnected at the hip joint and the ball joint replaced by a titanium rod (snork, stop it) and ball/socket. I had Lasik surgery - I really have no idea what’s missing from my eyes, and I really don’t want to know. I think one of my pubic hairs fell out today. And I got some wax out of my left ear with a Q-tip after my shower. Other than that, I’m intact. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/33 "2005-10-12T20:13:45Z")
Wisdom teeth, foreskin, cyst, skin tag, soul. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/34 "2005-10-12T20:15:45Z")
Foreskin and a few tooth fragments. Other than that, I’m still factory original. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/35 "2005-10-12T20:21:35Z")
Wisdom teeth and 4 other teeth that had to be yanked when I got braces because, contrary to what most of my friends would have you believe, I have a _small_ mouth. I also have no appendix, because they were stupid and took it out when all I really had wrong with me was a kidney stone. Oh joy! Missing a bit of endometrium now and then, but it always grows back. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/36 "2005-10-12T20:50:52Z")
> [@Sophistry and Illusion](#): > > Some of these posts are begging for explanations/stories. All I can tell you is that my missing lymph node involves a cat, Ted Nugent, and my groin. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/37 "2005-10-12T21:08:26Z")
Two wisdom teeth on the right side. All baby teeth. One mole. Many yards of hair and nails. Hymen. A number of warts, but they were not factory installed, so I don’t think they count. I, for one, would really like to hear some back stories, especially from cher3 and Darwin’s Finch. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/38 "2005-10-12T21:15:21Z")
My hymen :eek: ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/39 "2005-10-12T21:16:31Z")
Nothing very mysterious. I’ve just been going to Weight Watchers and following the plan reasonably well. I highly recommend it as a healthy plan with just the right amount of accountability, for me, at least. (I assume it’s not my tonsils or dental history you’re interested in.) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/40 "2005-10-12T21:29:24Z")
I am missing my stomach. Well, technically it is in my body, but it isn’t connected to anything. In June it perferated and as part of the process to save my life, they did a true bi-pass. My esophagas now attached straight to my small intestine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922.md?page=3)