# Let's play Operation! How many parts have you lost since you were born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003 "2023-04-01T20:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/21 "2023-04-01T23:33:17Z")
Lessee… foreskin, all 4 wisdom teeth, a molar and most of a premolar, the sides of each big toenail (were ingrown at various times), several moles and one wart, and about 90% of my hair although of course that’s just genetics, not surgery. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/22 "2023-04-01T23:40:21Z")
Sigmoid colon. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2023, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/23 "2023-04-01T23:48:18Z")
Sure. Stapes bones are supposed to vibrate, for lack of a better word, but on some occasions they can calcify so they stop moving back and forth. The condition is called otosclerosis, and it interferes with the ability to hear. I had moderate hearing loss and the doctor determined it was due largely to otosclerosis. The “cure” is to have a stapedectomy–removal of the stapes bones–and to insert very small prosthetic devices instead. I had one ear done about fifteen years back, and the other maybe five years later. My hearing isn’t where it ought to be, but there was definite improvement. So, no stapes bones, or at least not the ones that were factory installed in the womb. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/24 "2023-04-02T00:15:47Z")
Foreskin, baby teeth, tonsils, adenoids, ACL on my right knee, three wisdom teeth, small amount of my vasa deferentia. ---
**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 2, 2023, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/25 "2023-04-02T00:19:36Z")
Only my baby teeth (including two that were never replaced by a permanent tooth) and one wisdom tooth. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/26 "2023-04-02T00:22:30Z")
Foreskin and baby teeth. That’s all I can think of. I still have all my wisdom teeth, although molar #14 (upper left) is getting yanked next month - just made the appointment yesterday! Oh, I’ve had a couple of polyps removed during a colonoscopy - does that count? ---
**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 2, 2023, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/27 "2023-04-02T01:01:02Z")
Tonsils, appendix, 4 wisdom teeth and three others, both lenses. I was born without a foreskin, so didn’t lose it. I have some added titanium on one ankle and an added pacemaker. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/28 "2023-04-02T01:29:09Z")
Foreskin, baby teeth, 1 wisdom tooth, and appendix. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/29 "2023-04-02T01:37:25Z")
One wisdom tooth, some dental pulp. I had a cyst removed from my foot, but that wasn’t something I was born with, nor my colon polyps. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/30 "2023-04-02T02:01:08Z")
> [@Nyvaak](#): > > Wow, Dendarii\_Dame and OttoDaFe, I thought there would be a lot more appendix-less Dopers, but (unless I missed someone) there are just you two? > > Till now. > > I’m also in the appendix-losing group. Mine had to come out when I was 14. Besides that, I’ve given up some foreskin, patches of other skin, my baby teeth, my wisdom teeth, and lots and lots of hair and dander. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2023, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/31 "2023-04-02T03:02:50Z")
Just too many teeth and an ovary. And the side tips of two index fingers from accidents at age 3 and age 30. At least they’re symmetrical now. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/32 "2023-04-02T03:18:44Z")
Wisdom teeth, plus the usual baby teeth Gall bladder Appendix About 8" of intestine Uterus, ovaries, connecting parts A mole that went rogue ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/33 "2023-04-02T03:27:39Z")
Baby teeth, all four bicuspids (I still have them in a little envelope), gall bladder and assorted moles. At age 66, I still have my wisdom teeth and they work fine. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2023, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/34 "2023-04-02T03:34:02Z")
Part of my right parotid (saliva) gland and my whole prostate. After that the usual suspects: foreskin, baby teeth, wisdom teeth and a couple of adult teeth. I wouldn’t be all that surprised at having my gall bladder out some year. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/35 "2023-04-02T05:44:10Z")
Besides baby teeth and one other adult tooth, half my thyroid. Only night I’ve spent in the hospital for me in over 71 years. Stayed when my oldest daughter was born and to take care of my father. Oh and foreskin, associated with my first drink of wine. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/36 "2023-04-02T06:27:29Z")
The baby teeth, four premolars so the orthodontist could fit the rest of my teeth into my mouth straight, four wisdom teeth, a little cyst from the roof of my mouth, a wedge of bone from my left first metatarsal, my thyroid and the dozens of growths it contained, most of the tooth tissue from all my molars, and a tiny lump from my left breast that wasn’t cancer but made me eligible for yearly breast MRI’s for quite some time. These things are balanced a bit by the piece of mesh I acquired in my groin after some of my intestine tried to escape. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/37 "2023-04-02T09:20:30Z")
Tonsils, baby teeth, a testicle, a little bit of brain, several lymph nodes. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/38 "2023-04-02T10:58:26Z")
You win, kind sir … if you feel like sharing - please feel free ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/39 "2023-04-02T11:10:33Z")
Brain: I had a benign brain tumor removed in 2009. There is still a cute little hole where the tumor used to be. Testicle: Cancer. Lymph nodes: The cancer spread to several lymph nodes in my abdomen. Chemo killed the nastiest bits, but I’ve had two surgeries to remove enlarged lymph nodes that turned out to be teratomas. Reading the pathology reports on teratomas is downright horrifying. ---
**Author:** ![Yogeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yogeekgirl/32/4129_2.png) [@Yogeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yogeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2023, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003/40 "2023-04-02T11:26:32Z")
Couple of wisdom teeth at the ripe old age of 50, and 2 benign polyps from first colonoscopy, this January. Does corn removal count? It seems I have an “evergreen” variety on one of my protruding toe joints. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-operation-how-many-parts-have-you-lost-since-you-were-born/982003.md?page=3)