# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/61 "2005-10-13T03:52:55Z")
Four wisdom teeth, all the root pulp from a different tooth, bits of my nasal septum, adenoids, couple chunks of me vas deferens, foreskin. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/62 "2005-10-13T04:05:45Z")
Missing in action - Wisdom teeth, one right rear molar (root canal replaced with crown) left big toenail, foreskin, lens in left eye (childhood accident - looks fine cosmetically), full head of hair (genetics) - ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/63 "2005-10-13T04:06:04Z")
Two chunks of flesh-- one on my back, one on my cheek–that were playing host to melanoma cells. ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/64 "2005-10-13T04:19:06Z")
It started out fun, went to interesting, progressed to sad, horrific, ghoulish, and then to TMI overload. \*runs away crying ‘someone help those poor, poor people!’ \* ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/65 "2005-10-13T04:57:34Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > I don’t have wisdom teeth, but that’s cause they haven’t come in yet. Mine didn’t start coming in till I was about twenty-four, and even now, I only have two and a half–one was pulled, two are fully out, and one is apparently only going to come out halfway. I no longer have a gall bladder, but it was holding me back. **Hokkaido Brit,** I’m not inclined to count the nail tips, as they keep growing back. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/66 "2005-10-13T05:14:49Z")
Lots of teeth, appendix in 7th grade, tonsils (it was automatic when I was born, out they came sometime after the first birthday). And that’s all. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/67 "2005-10-13T05:33:00Z")
4 wisdom teeth. 4 adult teeth (orthidontia prep). A section of my parotid gland (tumor, benign). 1 foreskin. Periodic haircuts. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/68 "2005-10-13T05:34:48Z")
Also, some of my naivete was carted away a while back. ---
**Author:** ![Imasquare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Imasquare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imasquare)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/69 "2005-10-13T05:46:42Z")
> [@dwyr](#): > > Me too on the rib. My mother found out from the pediatrician who wanted to know if I’d fallen or anything (like my parents smacking me around presumably)… But how would falling or being smacked around cause an entire rib to disappear? ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/70 "2005-10-13T05:47:09Z")
> [@David Simmons](#): > > Lots of teeth, appendix in 7th grade, tonsils (it was automatic when I was born, out they came sometime after the first birthday). And that’s all. Oh my. I forgot a little piece the the skin and cartilage of my left ear. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/71 "2005-10-13T06:08:56Z")
Just tonsils and wisdom teeth. And I was born with a ball of pus in my ear, which broke when I was about four years old, so I’ve got a hole where that was. It’s more like an extra cavern, really - it doesn’t go all the way through, and you have to be really looking in my ear to see it. I cross my fingers that it stays that way for a long time! ---
**Author:** ![Habanero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d9b06d/32.png) [@Habanero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Habanero)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/72 "2005-10-13T06:09:47Z")
Hm… still have my wisdom teeth. They’ve all come through my gums already and act as functional teeth. I am, however, missing that tooth behind your canines on top, on both sides. I am also missing an appendix. Sadly, I’m just not as cool as everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/73 "2005-10-13T06:18:38Z")
> [@rinni](#): > > Just tonsils and wisdom teeth. And I was born with a ball of pus in my ear, which broke when I was about four years old, so I’ve got a hole where that was. It’s more like an extra cavern, really - it doesn’t go all the way through, and you have to be really looking in my ear to see it. > > I cross my fingers that it stays that way for a long time! Shoulda previewed, though I can’t say for sure whether it would have made a difference or not. I added the thing about the ball of pus after I wrote the last line, but it makes it look like I’m saying, “WOO! I hope I get to keep my extra ear cavern FOREVER!” When in reality I don’t care at all. I meant I’ve lost all I want to lose at this point! Except ten pounds or so. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/74 "2005-10-13T07:10:03Z")
I’m a mellow guy No spleen 😛 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/75 "2005-10-13T12:07:27Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m a mellow guy > No spleen Then what do you _vent_? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/76 "2005-10-13T13:12:38Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Then what do you _vent_? Don’t ask. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/77 "2005-10-13T13:21:55Z")
> [@LaurAnge](#): > > **BMalion** , you’re missing a FEMUR? Motorcycle accident, replaced with chrome steel. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/78 "2005-10-13T13:33:47Z")
I was born without six of my molars, four on the bottom and two on the top; i’ll probably have to get two more on the top taken off because they’re growing without any resistence from below, so it’s like i have fangs in the back of my mouth. I will, however, most likely not have wisdom teeth, since this lack of molars is common in my mom’s family, and few have had wisdom teeth; she likes to say it’s evolution in action. Otherwise I’m intact. Tonsils, appendix, gall bladder, all there. My aunt, though, is missing one of her pinky toes because my other aunt bit it off. Heh. ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/79 "2005-10-13T14:04:43Z")
Ew. About five posts into reading this thread and I was all oooggglllly. I keep imagining all these body parts _not connected to anything just floating around in the world somewhere._ Me–wisdom teeth, tonsils, about 5 pounds of breast tissue and a good hunk of my cervix (you asked). ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922/80 "2005-10-13T14:32:03Z")
Pork skin, 1966. Appendix, 1975. Pilonidal cyst, 1986. (Hey, it _felt_ like a body part. Especially when it **TMI TMI TMI**.) Wisdom teeth, 1997. Several thousand crown and vertex hairs. 20 lbs of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. A whole lotta beta cells. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-parts-that-youre-missing/325922.md?page=5)