# I Have an Extra Tooth **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364 "2020-07-26T03:43:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/1 "2020-07-26T03:43:06Z")
Weird story. When I first joined these boards about 20 years ago, I thought one of the first things I would post in MPSIMS would be this story. But in all these years, it just never happened for some reason. Anyways, it also is worth pointing out, that ironically my childhood dentist didn’t tell me until shortly before he retired too. I have an extra tooth in my mouth. The technical term is supernumerary, I think. And it is growing in nice and straight. So there is no need to extract it. In fact, if I didn’t have it, there’d be a space in my mouth anyways. Yeah, one time as a child, I was eating an apple in an apple orchard. And as I bit into it, I felt like my whole mouth was turned upside down, like a earthquake or something. This must have been when my tooth was knocked into place, I now speculate. Anyone else have an extra tooth? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/2 "2020-07-26T03:44:24Z")
Apples come with teeth in them? ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/3 "2020-07-26T03:52:36Z")
Your tooth was _knocked into place_? You’re saying it was out of place until then? That’s not how it works, and if it were, biting an apple wouldn’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/4 "2020-07-26T03:54:22Z")
I am not a dentist, so I honestly don’t know. I am just telling you what happened. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/5 "2020-07-26T03:56:14Z")
I can’t even. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/6 "2020-07-26T04:27:41Z")
You’re the one. The lil’wrekker was born with one less adult tooth. She lost her baby teeth in the normal fashion. One lower tooth space was never filled. They x-rayed at a regular dental appointment and discovered there was no adult tooth waiting to grow there. She has a space saver implant. She’s 21. I figure in the next few years we’ll need to get it seen about. You got her lost tooth. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/7 "2020-07-26T04:30:32Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You got her lost tooth.  Not unless she lost it in an apple. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/8 "2020-07-26T06:20:25Z")
During an upside down earthquake no less. Were y’all in or near OKC back in the fall of 2011? or was it twelve…I forget now ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/9 "2020-07-26T09:42:56Z")
Many people are born without wisdom teeth (third molars). ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/10 "2020-07-26T10:21:46Z")
Who’s got my son’s one then? The Small Boy also has a space where a tooth oughta be - front right. The dentists are always “we could DO something about this, you know” and he’s “eh, whatever. Is it hurting me?? Can I still eat??” I’m told it’s rare. But the funny thing is - his close friend from primary school, daughter of my very good friend S … just the same thing, except on the other side. They’re anti-twins! ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/11 "2020-07-26T11:55:22Z")
I’m one such person, born without any wisdom teeth, nothing back in the jaw and nothing ever sprouted. I’ve read conflicting references to the effect that these cases are so rare dentists won’t see one in their career, to, it’s a few percent of people. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/12 "2020-07-26T12:36:27Z")
Yes. “Crowded mouth” is a thing (I reckon I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s teeth). One on the bottom row was entirely double-banked behind the incisors, and when eventually the time came to have my wisdom teeth out I asked if they could take out at least that one at the same time (which they did - one night in hospital and several days of looking like a hamster and subsisting on soup and ice cream). The other extra tooth was behind a gap in the top row and my dentist made discouraging noises about trying to do anything remedial to cover the gap, since the tooth itself was healthy and didn’t interfere with my eating or anything, so I just stopped thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-an-extra-tooth/916364/13 "2020-07-26T13:17:22Z")
No extra teeth, but because my teeth/mouth size ratio wasn’t good, they pulled out all 4 of my teeth, removing both the primary and permanent teeth at the same time. I was 10. When I was 17, they also took all four of the third molars. So I have 4 fewer teeth than someone who has had their third molars removed. My husband also had 4 of his permanent teeth removed, but he got to keep his third molars.