# Do you still have all of your orginial, factory-installed parts? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 21, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950 "2018-08-21T03:43:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/81 "2018-08-27T19:45:56Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Other than teeth, which we **all** lose at least one set of naturally? So are we counting the teeth that you _don’t_ naturally lose? Because I’ve had a -4 WIS penalty for the last couple of years. Other than that… I had some infected chunks taken out of my ankle. Still got a few dents there to this day. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/82 "2018-08-27T19:52:31Z")
gallbladder and teeth (I just need to get implants\>doc talks about a new liver in the next 5-10 years …… ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/83 "2018-08-28T00:40:11Z")
> [@Cabin\_Fever](#): > > GED (pieces of chicken was caught between my throat and stomach, not sure if that counts as organ removal. I did have the presence of of mind to ask the doctor if I could have a copy of of the pictures that they took. When I visited my General Surgeon a week later she went “Ewww” Unless you’re some freak of nature, chicken pieces aren’t OEM equipment in a human. Usually people get chunks of poorly-chewed steak caught there, giving the condition the name “Steakhouse Syndrome” Odd that your doc said “ewww” about pictures - at my last upper endoscopy and colonoscopy (cameras in both ends - whee!) I got a lovely parting gift of several pages of color photos. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/84 "2018-08-29T01:54:14Z")
The usual tonsils and foreskin. Later the gallbladder, eye lenses with replacement. Cartilage seems to have departed, been absorbed, excreted. Mostly gone from left knee and ankle. Had some mesh added during hernia repair. All about average for a geezer. ---
**Author:** ![Map\_Ylow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/map_ylow/32/85_2.png) [@Map\_Ylow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Map_Ylow)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/85 "2018-08-29T02:14:12Z")
Nope. Missing teeth - all the wisdoms (most never grew in, two were impacted), three or four molars that _broke_ due to medication-induced dental problems and a period of time seeing an exceptionally inept dentist - and some actually unnecessary abdominal bits have also been taken out. I do have some extra bits added, though, since I’ve had both ankles repaired due to hypermobile joints, so maybe that balances things out a bit. And I’ve had a bit of stuff shuffled about in my wrist (had a tendon reinforced with a flap of tissue taken from elsewhere in the wrist) so I can honestly say some bits of me are in the wrong order! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/86 "2018-08-29T03:03:12Z")
Reading through this thread is too funny. You’d think I’d have this list off the top of my head, but I keep remembering things as I scan down. First things I thought of were the standard tonsils and appendix. Then somebody mentioned adenoids, and yes, those went with the tonsils. I’m still unclear as to whether the four wisdom teeth count. There was also a bit of tissue connecting my top lip to the space between my two front teeth. That was taken out when I was little. Then I think I’m done, but no, somebody says “moles” and yes, I’ve had a couple of over-achieving moles removed as well. Also one pre-cancerous lesion, but that was not factory installed, it was a self-patching mechanism gone wrong. There was also the internal scar tissue from the appendectomy, (removed along with some wandering uterine tissue) but again, that was all after-market equipment. I’m sure I’m still forgetting something. I’ve also got a pinky toe I’m ready to chop right the ^#@! off if it doesn’t stop hurting me soon. Argh! ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/87 "2018-09-09T20:54:29Z")
I’m down one gallbladder and 4 wisdom teeth. A couple of other teeth have been upgraded (extraction / implant). Also looking at upgrading one or both eye lenses in the very near future. Some nasal tissue (turbinate bone and possibly polyps) though those were aftermarket additions, so I don’t think they count. Tonsils: There was a time where I’d have happily had mine yanked - kept getting sore throats that responded to antibioitics but never tested positive for strep (as in, I’d go on a course, the throat would get better, and 2 days after the antibiotics, it would come right back). We never figured out what was going on there. A friend’s daughter did just have hers out - in her case, recurrent nasty tonsil stones. I think she was shocked at how miserable the recovery turned out to be. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/88 "2018-09-09T20:57:56Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > … > I recently went to a new dentist. He wanted to know my dental history, so I told him, including the fact that I wore braces way back when, and the fact that some of my teeth were pulled before getting braces. He said, yes, that was common in those days, but orthodontia has come a long way since then; and nowadays, every effort is made to work with the teeth that were formerly in the way. > … My oldest brother had pretty bad “buck teeth” and went through a lot of orthodontia - and he did have a couple of teeth yanked (this would have been in the 1960s). I think they do more with palate expanders nowadays: both my kids had those. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/89 "2018-09-10T00:37:03Z")
This vehicle contains all original parts. Condition of parts not to be guaranteed though Bodyfax reports major collision events. ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/90 "2021-04-13T17:08:56Z")
Mine are restricted to teeth, none of which have been replaced as yet. One of my milk teeth was never replaced by a permanent one after it fell out; another didn’t fall out itself but the root disintegrated and it became loose; I finally had to have it removed this winter. Prior to that, I had had one of my wisdom teeth, which was broken, removed. I have one other wisdom tooth that may have to come out later too (my top wisdom teeth never came in). Thankfully, in the place where I was born was _not_ one where the perverse quackery that is routine infant circumcision is practiced. ---
**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:** [April 13, 2021, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/91 "2021-04-13T17:27:47Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I’m missing (in order uninstalled) > > foreskin > > tonsils > > three wisdom teeth > > I’ve got everything else. On the other hand, my wife, **Pepper Mill** , has had a bunch of parts removed, starting with an unwanted cyst. I don’t feel free to discuss the work she’s had done, but none of it shows. Unlike me and a lot of folks in my generation, she still has her factory-installed tonsils. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/92 "2021-04-13T17:32:25Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’ve lost my foreskin, tonsils and adenoids, teeth, moles, appendix, and as of two months ago, my right knee joint. Add to that list: my aortic valve, four of my coronary arteries and the lenses of both of my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/93 "2021-04-14T15:36:58Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Foreskin > About half of the cartilage from my left patella > Gallbladder > Tonsils & adenoids > Much of the soft palate and uvula (They took my screamer!) > Some unspecified portion of the nasal turbinates > C5-6 spinal disk (replaced with a steel and plastic joint) > A few bits of the C4-5 spinal disk > L4-L5-S1 spinal disks (replaced with bone grafts) > The “bad” inner layers of both corneas (LASIK surgery) > An 8-gage diameter piece of my nasal septum > All four wisdom teeth and two non-wise teeth, only one of which was replaced Updating the list to include my sigmoid colon, removed two months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/94 "2021-04-14T16:06:39Z")
No gallbladder and wisdom teeth. Plus I lost 4 teeth before I got braces since my mouth was too crowded. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/95 "2021-04-14T17:57:45Z")
Missing: Tonsils, appendix, 4 wisdom teeth and three others. Curiously, I was born sans foreskin. Most of my headhair (see caricature). Added: piece of titanium in right ankle, pacemaker. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/96 "2021-04-14T18:13:36Z")
Pretty much the same set as **CalMeacham** , and in the same order. I technically still _have_ my left ACL. It just is in several non-connected pieces. I didn’t just tear it 30 years ago - I destroyed it. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/97 "2021-04-14T18:19:42Z")
I am only missing foreskin. I have never even had a tooth pulled and still have the wisdom teeth (only 3 came in). One of them is targeted for removal at some point so my dentist can do some work on the tooth in front of it. My only surgery was as a kid to repair a congenital hernia (but I assume nothing was removed). I am not sure to count hair loss. I’m 53. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/98 "2021-04-14T19:30:27Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > On the other hand, my wife, **Pepper Mill** , has had a bunch of parts removed, starting with an unwanted cyst. I don’t think a cyst counts as a factory-installed part. I’m down seven teeth - four wisdom teeth, two removed to make room for braces to work - and one that died (fortunately you cannot tell I’m that short of teeth) and a foreskin. Nothing added. Not bad for 49. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/99 "2021-04-14T19:53:09Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > I don’t think a cyst counts as a factory-installed part. That’s what the manufacturer will argue if you try to complain at least. I have all my parts, a few teeth excluded. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950/100 "2021-04-14T21:23:54Z")
Only thing I’ve had removed is my gall bladder. Everything else is still present. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-all-of-your-orginial-factory-installed-parts/819950.md?page=6)