# Do Some Women Have Teeth Inside Of Their Vaginas? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 12, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705 "2004-07-12T14:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/1 "2004-07-12T14:58:58Z")
Is it true that there have been cases of women who had teeth growing inside their vaginas, and that these was discovered during gynecological exams? If so, what is the cause of this phenomenon? Do they have just one or two teeth or is it a fully-developed set?? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Achilles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dc4da7/32.png) [@Achilles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achilles)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/2 "2004-07-12T15:04:47Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > Is it true that there have been cases of women who had teeth growing inside their vaginas, and that these was discovered during gynecological exams? > > If so, what is the cause of this phenomenon? Do they have just one or two teeth or is it a fully-developed set?? > > Thanks. Is it true that some people ask inane questions ? Whatever the bowels of medical history may reveal, I’ll be damned if any woman ever grew a full set of gnashers inside her, eh, gnasher. Don’t ask silly questions. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/3 "2004-07-12T15:07:42Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > Is it true that there have been cases of women who had teeth growing inside their vaginas, and that these was discovered during gynecological exams? > > If so, what is the cause of this phenomenon? Do they have just one or two teeth or is it a fully-developed set?? > > Thanks. I don’t know about in the vagina, but dermoid tumors or teratomas are fairly common, which have been known to include teeth. Those form on the ovaries, not in the vagina, though. I had one that included two teeth, sweat glands, and hair which claimed my right ovary when I was 22. They are very rarely cancerous. As my doctor explained it to me, being in that area, the tumors have the blueprints to do just about anything. They are not babies gone wrong, do not resemble babies at all as they are just kind of a lump like any other tumor, and have been discussed several times on this board. You can also google either of those terms I gave you for pictures and such. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/4 "2004-07-12T15:12:10Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > Is it true that there have been cases of women who had teeth growing inside their vaginas, and that these was discovered during gynecological exams? > > If so, what is the cause of this phenomenon? Do they have just one or two teeth or is it a fully-developed set?? > > Thanks. It’s true! Cause mama don’t lie. She said don’t stick anything up there or it might just get bit off. ---
**Author:** ![brane\_damaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@brane\_damaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brane_damaj)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/5 "2004-07-12T15:18:22Z")
> [@Thinks2Much](#): > > I don’t know about in the vagina, but dermoid tumors or teratomas are fairly common, which have been known to include teeth. So, like, unfertilized eggs go tumorous and start spawning all sorts of people pieces? Freakish! That’s almost as weird as human chimeras! Back to the OP: If you’re feeling teeth, you stuck in the wrong end. That may mean two things: 1. You need new glasses 2. She so ugly you can’t tell the difference, in which case RUN! ---
**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:** [July 12, 2004, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/6 "2004-07-12T15:27:51Z")
Ah, the age-old **Vagine Dentata**! (Vagina Dentata! What a \*wonderful phrase Vagina Dentate Ain’t no passing craze It means lotsa worries For the rest of your days It’s sex phobia That sticks to ya Vagina Dentata!) Maybe this is part of that “Elaborate Sexual Intercourse” referred to in the thread currently below yhis one? ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/7 "2004-07-12T15:28:58Z")
> [@Achilles](#): > > Is it true that some people ask inane questions ? The OP is far from inane IMHO. Vagina dentata is part of manyy cultures’ folklore. There are also “real” cases. Cite: [http://www.healthcentral.com/DrDean/Deanfulltexttopics.cfm?ID=13198](http://www.healthcentral.com/DrDean/Deanfulltexttopics.cfm?ID=13198) > [@](#): > > Can you imagine? Day in and day out, nothing but pap smears, > and then one day you put in the speculum and there are some > choppers staring back at you! > > ``` > Well, that woman had a dermoid cyst. Dermoid cysts are > derived from the outer layers of embryonic skin, and they are > capable of growing hair and teeth and bones, anything that > comes from the outer layers of the embryo. They can occur > anywhere. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/8 "2004-07-12T15:29:03Z")
Thanks. When I added the word ‘dermoid’ to my Google search, per **Thinks2Much’s** suggestion, I was able to find confirmation of vaginal teeth from Dr. Dean Edell [http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?ID=53168&storytype=DeanQuestions](http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/deanfulltexttopics.cfm?ID=53168&storytype=DeanQuestions) “_I’ll tell you a funny story. People think I’m making this up. There is a case in a medical journal, I have it in my files, of a gynecologist who actually was doing a Pap-smear on a woman and he saw teeth looking back at him. That’s not a place in the body you expect to see teeth, despite all the jokes. This woman had a dermoid, which can also occur in the pelvic region. It had teeth in it and it had erupted next to her cervix._” ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/9 "2004-07-12T15:30:30Z")
[It’s true! Here’s a horrifying tale about one such incident.](http://about.citypaper.com/sb/47795/perrybible-1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/10 "2004-07-12T15:37:29Z")
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**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/11 "2004-07-12T16:17:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Ah, the age-old **Vagine Dentata**! Sounds like either a band , or a Frank Zappa song Declan ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/12 "2004-07-12T16:23:32Z")
> [@Achilles](#): > > Is it true that some people ask inane questions ? > > Whatever the bowels of medical history may reveal, I’ll be damned if any woman ever grew a full set of gnashers inside her, eh, gnasher. > > Don’t ask silly questions. You need to hang out with some more medical students or doctors, then. It’s absolutely amazing what bizarre and utterly disgusting stuff the body is capable of. I got a full run-down on tumors and the body parts and organs they can generate. Teeth in the vagina is utterly plausible. I’m actually surprised that there’s aren’t many more documented cases. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/13 "2004-07-12T16:34:50Z")
We should not overlook the possibility that teeth found in a vagina might have been left behind by someone else. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/14 "2004-07-12T17:00:32Z")
> [@Early Out](#): > > We should not overlook the possibility that teeth found in a vagina might have been left behind by someone else. Like who, Grampa? BTW, [here’s a real case](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=3580333) (sorry, can’t link to full text) ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/15 "2004-07-12T17:03:15Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Like who, Grampa? Exactly what I was thinking of! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/16 "2004-07-12T17:34:06Z")
Sex with a real bite to it! :smack: ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/17 "2004-07-12T17:48:57Z")
_but Mom, we weren’t doing anything dirty-I was just helping Suzy floss…_ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/18 "2004-07-12T18:03:19Z")
This thread reminds me of the punchline to one of my favorite jokes: > [@](#): > > Wow, you’re right; you don’t have any teeth down there. But your gums are in horrible shape! ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/19 "2004-07-12T18:17:43Z")
> [@surreal](#): > > . . . was doing a Pap-smear on a woman and he saw teeth looking back at him. Musta been eyeteeth. RR ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/20 "2004-07-12T19:05:32Z")
The Master [speaketh](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a981002a.html). He doesn’t address teratoma-induced vagina dentata specifically, but what he does say about it doesn’t leaves the conclusion close enough to jump to. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705.md?page=2)