# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/41 "2004-07-13T01:51:55Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > Man, why does fighting ignorance have to be so icky? I am not icky! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/42 "2004-07-13T01:57:34Z")
I have to ask, is **fighting ignorant** at all like fighting drunk? I just picture some guy saying “I have no idea, wanna fight about it?” 😉 Sorry. Proceed. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/43 "2004-07-13T02:04:42Z")
While we’re talking about the Virgin Mary, here’s a cartoon I saw many years ago. A very obviously-pregnant Virgin Mary is looking up at the sky. The voice of God is booming “I never said I’d marry you.” Sorry, nothing to do with vagina dentata but it was a story that had to be told. Isn’t vagina dentata a song from the “Lion King”? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/44 "2004-07-13T02:11:05Z")
> [@Josh\_dePlume](#): > > “Immaculate Conception” doesn’t mean what you think it means. It refers to the conception of Mary by her (non-virginal) mother without original sin. That was one of the few things I knew that Ben Stein didn’t on “Win Ben Stein’s Money”. I totally forgot about it in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/45 "2004-07-14T12:46:26Z")
> [@Josh\_dePlume](#): > > “Immaculate Conception” doesn’t mean what you think it means. It refers to the conception of Mary by her (non-virginal) mother without original sin. Not being of a religious bent, I didn’t know that … you live and learn! I think most knew what I meant though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/46 "2004-07-14T20:14:19Z")
Teratomas can consist of easily identified parenchymal tissues derived from more than one germ line, or they can also be devoid of any real organization – especially solid teratomas. The term “dermoid” is sometimes reserved for well-ordered structures with well differentiated ecto- and mesodermal elements surrounding an endodermal core. Aside from the usually harmless muscle, skin, bone, hair, teeth or fat, we should always consider other possibilities like physiologically active endocrine -or even neural- tissue. Forget vagina denata; what keeps me up at night is the idea of vagina mentata. ---
**Author:** ![KP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KP)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/47 "2004-07-14T20:16:13Z")
Oops. I meant to note that the above is from my notes for a brief talk I gave recently ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/48 "2004-07-14T20:52:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by **CalMeacham** > Ah, the age-old **Vagine Dentata!** > [@Declan](#): > > Sounds like either a band , or a Frank Zappa song Yeah, I was thinkin’ either that or _The Lion King._ ---
**Author:** ![qcomdrj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/a6a055/32.png) [@qcomdrj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qcomdrj)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/49 "2004-07-14T21:14:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **KP** \* > Aside from the usually harmless muscle, skin, bone, hair, teeth or fat, we should always consider other possibilities like physiologically active endocrine -or even neural- tissue. Some tumors do have that, in case other people aren’t aware. Pheochromocytomas, some lung tumors, etc. Because every cell has the genetic basis of everything, tumors can and do make pretty much anything. There have been evidence of working joints in teratomas. Spooky. I would make a comment about the second poster, but it has already been beaten into the ground. How about apologizing to Surreal though? ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/50 "2004-07-14T21:41:16Z")
This is all fine and good, but could someone please help me find my keys. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/51 "2004-07-14T22:20:39Z")
> [@Shrinking Violet](#): > > Brain tissue? :eek: Aren’t men the ones always being accused of having their brains in their pants? ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/52 "2004-07-15T05:35:07Z")
My doctor today told me I have a tongue sticking out of my cervix. OK, it’s really a big polyp but she said it looked like a tongue and that I should have it removed. It made me think of this thread so I just had to share. Bet you wish I didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/53 "2004-07-15T13:22:09Z")
There’s a _really_ raunchy joke based on the band name “Pop Will Eat Itself” to be made here, **Tikki**. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/54 "2004-07-15T13:29:07Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > Sounds like either a band , or a Frank Zappa song > > Declan > [@Crandolph](#): > > Hey that was a band! In about 1987 the L.A. punk fanzine Flipside released their second “Vinyl fanzine” (LP) which featured about 20 bands, one of them Vagina Dentata, with one of the better songs on the album, “Golden Boys.” I had the idea at the time they may have been Japanese because of the accents in the little into-to-the-song groove all the bands got, but I could be wrong. Dang it! I’ve been planning on using that name for a band for years. Now I find out it’s been claimed! At any rate, if I can find a doctor who’ll do it, I intend to make sure any daughters I may have get teeth implanted in their vaginas. They come out when you’re 18, sweetie, and not a moment sooner. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/55 "2004-07-15T16:52:37Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > At any rate, if I can find a doctor who’ll do it, I intend to make sure any daughters I may have get teeth implanted in their vaginas. They come out when you’re 18, sweetie, and not a moment sooner. I was thinking the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/56 "2004-07-15T23:58:30Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > Like who, Grampa? _Grampa Simpson voice_ _“I used to soak my teeth overnight in a glass, but now…”_ ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/57 "2004-07-16T01:39:34Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > Is it true that there have been cases of women who had teeth growing inside their vaginas? It absolutely is just as true as the rumor that Japanese women have a horizontal vagina! Fragments may be, real fully developed teeth very unlikely ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/58 "2004-07-16T12:44:47Z")
> [@spingears](#): > > Fragments may be, real fully developed teeth very unlikely Did you read the rest of the thread? Still need convincing? From [here](http://home.earthlink.net/~radiologist/tf/040802.htm): **"This confirmed the diagnosis of a mature well differentiated cystic teratoma of the ovary. It contained four well formed teeth and a portion of mandible."** ---
**Author:** ![fighting\_ignorant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ac8455/32.png) [@fighting\_ignorant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fighting_ignorant)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705/59 "2004-07-17T18:18:26Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > I have to ask, is **fighting ignorant** at all like fighting drunk? I just picture some guy saying “I have no idea, wanna fight about it?” 😉 > > Sorry. Proceed. Well I just figured this board was supposed to be for Fighting Ignorants, and I wanted to be one of them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-some-women-have-teeth-inside-of-their-vaginas/254705.md?page=2)